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Depressor
- noun - a device used by physician to press a part down or aside
- any nerve whose activity tends to reduce the activity or tone of the body part it serves
- any skeletal muscle that draws a body part down
Depulsion
- - A driving or thrusting away.
Depurator
- - One who, or that which, cleanses.
Deputator
- - One who deputes, or makes a deputation.
Desertion
- noun - the act of giving something up
- withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility; "his abandonment of his wife and children left them penniless"
Detection
- noun - a police investigation to determine the perpetrator; "detection is hard on the feet"
- the act of detecting something; catching sight of something
- the detection that a signal is being received
- the perception that something has occurred or some state exists; "early detection can often lead to a cure"
Detention
- noun - a punishment in which a student must stay at school after others have gone home; "the detention of tardy pupils"
- a state of being confined (usually for a short time); "his detention was politically motivated"; "the prisoner is on hold"; "he is in the custody of police"
Detersion
- - The act of deterging or cleansing, as a sore.