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Etymology

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From depress +‎ -o- +‎ motor.

Adjective

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depressomotor (not comparable)

  1. (medicine) Depressing or diminishing the capacity for movement.
    Depressomotor nerves lower or inhibit muscular activity.

Noun

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depressomotor (plural depressomotors)

  1. (medicine) Any agent that depresses the activity of the motor centres.
    Bromides are depressomotors.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for depressomotor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)