depressor

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

DEPRESSOR, noun 1. He that presses down; an oppressor. 2. In anatomy, a muscle that depresses or draws down the part to which it is attached; as the depressor of the lower jaw, or of the eyeball. It is called also depriment or deprimens.
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