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Depressors
- 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
Dermestoid
- - Pertaining to or resembling the genus Dermestes.
Descendant
- adjective - a person considered as descended from some ancestor or race
- going or coming down
- offspring
- proceeding by descent from an ancestor; "descendent gene"
Descendent
- adjective - a person considered as descended from some ancestor or race
- going or coming down
- proceeding by descent from an ancestor; "descendent gene"
Descenders
- noun - (printing) the part of lowercase letters that extends below the other lowercase letters
- a lowercase letter that has a part extending below other lowercase letters
- someone who descends
Descending
- verb - come as if by falling; "Night fell"; "Silence fell"
- come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example; "She was descended from an old Italian noble family"; "he comes from humble origins"
- coming down or downward
- do something that one considers to be below one's dignity
- Go down
- move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way; "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again"
Descension
- - The act of going downward; descent; falling or sinking; declension; degradation.
Descensive
- - Tending to descend; tending downwards; descending.
Descensory
- - A vessel used in alchemy to extract oils.
Despection
- - A looking down; a despising.