depressor

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

depressor
    n 1: any skeletal muscle that draws a body part down [syn:
         {depressor}, {depressor muscle}]
    2: any nerve whose activity tends to reduce the activity or tone
       of the body part it serves [syn: {depressor}, {depressor
       nerve}]
    3: a device used by physician to press a part down or aside

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Depressor \De*press"or\, n.
   1. One who, or that which, presses down; an oppressor.
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   2. (Anat.) A muscle that depresses or tends to draw down a
      part.
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   {Depressor nerve} (Physiol.), a nerve which lowers the
      activity of an organ; as, the depressor nerve of the
      heart.
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