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How to pronounce depressor in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms depressor nerve
Type of nerve, nervus
Type Words
Synonyms depressor muscle
Type of skeletal muscle, striated muscle
Derivation depress
Type Words
Type of device
Has types tongue depressor
Derivation depress

Examples of depressor

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The ends of the tape are folded over to adhere to the two sides of the depressor.
From the stltoday.com
We first sit the patient down and push down their tongue with a wooden tongue depressor.
From the dailymail.co.uk
A tongue depressor from the nurse's office is acting as the mouthpiece on the clarinet.
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The tape is fixed to the depressor with the sticky side on the outside.
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However, the tone on the dla of ukudlala is low as a result of the depressor consonant dl.
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The mystery object, a tongue depressor, may have been used by Revere in his dentistry practice.
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The mystery object, a tongue depressor, might have been used by Revere in his dental practice.
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Zulu is also known for having depressor consonants, which lower a high tone in their syllable.
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They are and have always been as fundamental a tool to medical science as the scalpel or tongue depressor.
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More examples
  • Any skeletal muscle that draws a body part down
  • Any nerve whose activity tends to reduce the activity or tone of the body part it serves
  • A device used by physician to press a part down or aside
  • Depression, in kinesiology, is the anatomical term of motion for movement in an inferior direction.
  • Anything that depresses; An instrument used to push something out of the way during an examination; Any of several muscles that pull down; Anything that lowers blood pressure
  • An attachment to a sonar tow cable that assists in increasing the depths of the towed body; commonly of two types: deadweight and hydrodynamic. The depressor allows the user to bring a sonar towbody within an optimum altitude above the seabed. ...