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Definition of Depressors
1. depressor [n] - See also: depressor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Depressors
Literary usage of Depressors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Monthly Review of Dental Surgery by British Dental Association (1876)
"The depressors of the lower jaw, viz., the anterior belly of the digastric
mylo-hyoid ami genio-hyoid, were very much atrophied by fatty degeneration, ..."
2. The Dissectors' Manual of Practical and Surgical Anatomy by Erasmus Wilson (1854)
"It draws also upon the angle of the mouth, and is one of the depressors of the
lower jaw. The transverse fibres draw the angle of the mouth outwards and ..."
3. Text-book of Ophthalmology by Ernst Fuchs (1911)
"The lateral and the torsion actions of the two depressors nullify each other,
... (Acting as depressors mainly when eyes are directed to right. ..."