tongue depressor

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   a thin depressor used to press the tongue down during an examination of the mouth and throat

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Questions about tongue depressor

What does tongue depressor mean?

tongue depressor means "a thin depressor used to press the tongue down during an examination of the mouth and throat".

Is tongue depressor a common word?

tongue depressor is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.