| The gag reflex is elicited by stroking the pharyngeal mucosa with a cotton-tipped applicator or tongue depressor. |
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| All players exhibited significantly stronger depressor muscles of the scapula on the throwing side compared with the nonthrowing side. |
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| I asked him as I readied the tongue depressor in one hand and steadied my penlight with the other. |
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| 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. |
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| Use the lifter depressor tool to press down the lifter and install the shim. |
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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. |
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| The most common instrument for this examination is a tongue depressor which is used in conjunction with a light or other viewing device. |
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| This problem was solved when I glued a wooden tongue depressor to the pieces. |
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| With the nib completely immersed in the ink, fully press down and release the depressor several times until the pen is seen to be full. |
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| Take out the firing pin assembly and the extractor depressor assembly to the rear. |
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| He opened a clear jar on a nearby counter and pulled out a simple wooden tongue depressor. |
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| Another common feature is that the level of tone is lowered after the occurrence of certain depressor consonants, namely voiced fortis obstruents. |
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| Second, the athlete is placed on an aggressive strengthening program for the posterior rotator cuff muscles and the retractor and depressor muscles of the scapula. |
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| Since the discovery of the depressor nerve, much work has been done in connexion with its important influence on the regulation of blood-pressure. |
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| In the overhead thrower, the shoulder external rotator muscles, scapular retractor muscles, and protractor and depressor muscles are frequently isolated because of weakness. |
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| Something to spread the mixture with like a tongue depressor, popsicle stick, cheese spreader or spatula. |
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| The system proposed uses a two-stage towing arrangement that includes a long primary cable, a gravitic depressor, and a secondary cable. |
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| He lowered his brow, using his depressor glabellae, depressor supercilli, and corrugator. |
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| A dentist suggested that I scrape my tongue with a tongue depressor to see if any gunk came off. |
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| Douglas then went to see a friend's doctor in Montreal who looked inside his mouth using a tongue depressor. |
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| Next, gently retract the lips with a tongue depressor to examine the anterior buccal mucosa and gingiva. |
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| Release the depressor. to hold the hair in place and wait a few seconds for the curl to form. |
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| Xylene is a central nervous system depressor and in rare cases, may cause a sensitization of the heart muscle causing arrhythmia. |
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| There wasn't a stethoscope, tongue depressor, or thermometer in sight. |
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| This feature is called curb depressor or driveway knife. |
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| To collect throat specimens, hold down the tongue with a depressor and rub the swab on the tonsils, or any areas of inflammation with signs of pus or redness in the back of the throat. |
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| The core depressor, in the end of the hose, should also be removed. |
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| In particular, the very nature of a tongue depressor invites unsuspecting children to mouth the toy. |
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| Patented, spring loaded depressor will not damage service valves. |
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| To counteract the tendency of an ordinary net to surface behind the towing vessel, a midwater trawl of the Isaacs-Kidd variety uses an inclined-plane surface rigged in front of the net entrance to act as a depressor. |
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| There are no extensor muscles, however, and straightening of the leg when it is off the ground is effected by hydrostatic pressure of the general hemocoele and by proximal depressor muscles that open the joint indirectly. |
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| Presented in a blister pack or with a separate dish, they contain a tongue depressor ond the necessary material for cleaning the mouth: swabs or cotton-tip sticks. |
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| Shanahan, Denver's coach, is as rigid as a tongue depressor, can melt plastic with his stare and insists that every digital clock at the Broncos' practice facility be synchronized to eliminate an excuse for tardiness. |
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| He said the doctor put a tongue depressor in his throat to begin his diagnostic tests. |
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| He tailors a sterile tongue depressor for use as a guard to protect the IUD strings. |
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| The consumer either rubs a stick shaped like a large tongue depressor against the inside of their cheek, or provides a sample of their saliva. |
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| Cut a slit into one end of each tongue depressor so that students will be able to slide the end of a string into it. |
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| It was suspected that the infection had been contracted through the use of a wooden tongue depressor during oral examination. |
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| I miss clean, well-lit clinics that are fully equipped with supplies as simple as a tongue depressor. |
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| He has previously spoken about how a specialist in Montreal finally realised the severity of his illness after looking inside his mouth using a tongue depressor. |
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| The Relialight is designed to hold a tongue depressor or similarly crafted accessory. |
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| I've seen my doctor and nurse put everything from a tongue depressor to used needles or bandages inside. |
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| Tetrapods, with the exception of mammals, utilize part of the constrictor muscle of the hyoid arch to form the depressor mandibulae, which replaces the hypobranchial muscles as the major jaw-opening muscle. |
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| This muscle not only is important in providing forward thrust in quadrupedal locomotion but is the chief depressor of the forelimb in birds and bats. |
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| A swivel and a depressor weight are installed at this junction as well. |
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| Avoid injection near the levator palpebrae superioris, particularly in patients with larger brow depressor complexes. |
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