depressor
noun/dɪˈpresə(r)/
/dɪˈpresər/
- an instrument for pressing something down see also tongue depressorWord Originearly 17th cent. (in the general sense ‘someone or something that depresses’): from Latin, from depress- ‘pressed down’, from the verb deprimere ‘press down’.
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