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Example sentences for "depressor"

Lexicographically close words:
depresses; depressing; depression; depressions; depressive; depriue; depriued; deprivation; deprivations; deprive
  1. We have already seen that the contraction of the orbicular muscles leads to the drawing up of the upper lip, and consequently, if the mouth is kept widely open, to the drawing down of the corners by the contraction of the depressor muscles.

  2. The contraction of the depressor muscle is best seen in infants when not screaming violently, and especially just before they begin, or when they cease to scream.

  3. We have discovered that the lancet is a powerful depressor of vitality, and that poisons derange, instead of producing, healthy action.

  4. The anterior or muscular compartment contains the sterno-mastoid muscle and the depressor muscles of the hyoid bone.

  5. As the depressor muscles of the hyoid are divided, there is interference with deglutition and phonation, but respiration is not affected.

  6. Instead, therefore, of meriting the name of stimulant, alcohol should be designated and used only as an anæsthetic and sedative, or depressor of vital activity.

  7. Previously, Spriggs, at the suggestion of Starling, had tried intravenous injections of secretin free from depressor substance in a diabetic patient, and had obtained negative results.

  8. Jackson has shown experimentally that this causes severe shock by affecting the depressor fibres of the vagus, which may result in death.

  9. No gag should be employed, a tongue depressor or the operator’s left forefinger being sufficient both to keep the mouth open and act as a guide.

  10. Traces are just visible of crests for the attachment of the tergal depressor muscles.

  11. Internally, the articular ridge and crests for the tergal depressor muscle are moderately prominent.

  12. The basal margin of the tergum is either straight, or depends a little on the scutal side, thus producing a small spur: the crests for the depressor muscles are strongly marked, and depend beneath the basal margin.

  13. The crests for the tergal depressor muscle are very feeble.

  14. The lateral depressor muscle is attached to several quite distinct crests, seated in a concavity beneath the adductor ridge.

  15. The rostral depressor muscle is attached in a small oblong pit, sometimes including little crests; and the lateral depressor muscle is attached to what may be described either as three or four parallel furrows or crests.

  16. Kingii and modestus there is no adductor ridge and no crests for the depressor muscles; in E.

  17. The tips of the crests for the depressor muscle barely depend beneath the basal margin.

  18. Scuta triangular, with the basal margin a little curved and protuberant: adductor and articular ridges distinct from each other, moderately prominent: there is a small hollow for the lateral depressor muscle.

  19. The rostral depressor muscle is usually attached in a small pit formed by the folding over of the lower part of the occludent margin: in B.

  20. The Scutum differs from that in the last species, only in the pit for the lateral depressor muscle, being much shallower, and less defined, and in the apex being truncated.

  21. He says: 'In inflammation of the throat in adults seat the patient, open his mouth and depress the tongue with a tongue depressor or a spathomele, and open the abscess with a scalpel or a needle-knife.

  22. I read in my volume of Romantic Love and Personal Beauty that 'the movements of the moustache are dependent on the muscle called depressor alæ nasi.

  23. One might almost think that my depressor alæ nasi was a vermiform appendix.

  24. The origin is fleshy from the lateral and ventral surfaces of Ligamentum depressor mandibulae.

  25. The origin is fleshy from the lateral edge of the basioccipital where the muscle is attached to Ligamentum depressor mandibulae and extends in a lateral direction to a point where the structures involved turn dorsad.

  26. The depressor of the lower mandible is the sole muscle other than M.

  27. The function of the depressor mandibulae muscle in certain passerine birds.


  28. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "depressor" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    alcohol; analgesic; anodyne; barb; blue; codeine; depressant; heroin; hop; horse; hypnotic; junk; laudanum; liquor; morphine; narcotic; opiate; opium; paregoric; rainbow; shit; sleeper; smack; soporific; tar; yellow