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What is a depressor?

What is a depressor? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Anything that depresses
  2. An instrument used to push something out of the way during an examination
  3. Any of several muscles that pull down
  4. Anything that lowers blood pressure
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Make a buttonholer from a tongue depressor or craft stick with a loop of string through a hole in one end of it.
Something to spread the mixture with like a tongue depressor, popsicle stick, cheese spreader or spatula.
After I described my symptoms and he stuck a tongue depressor down my throat, he sent me down the hall for a blood test, which cost 15 yuan.
The most common instrument for this examination is a tongue depressor which is used in conjunction with a light or other viewing device.
The gag reflex is elicited by stroking the pharyngeal mucosa with a cotton-tipped applicator or tongue depressor.
I asked him as I readied the tongue depressor in one hand and steadied my penlight with the other.

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