What's the difference between depress and depressor?
Depress
Definition:
(v. t.) To press down; to cause to sink; to let fall; to lower; as, to depress the muzzle of a gun; to depress the eyes.
(v. t.) To bring down or humble; to abase, as pride.
(v. t.) To cast a gloom upon; to sadden; as, his spirits were depressed.
(v. t.) To lessen the activity of; to make dull; embarrass, as trade, commerce, etc.
(v. t.) To lessen in price; to cause to decline in value; to cheapen; to depreciate.
(v. t.) To reduce (an equation) in a lower degree.
(a.) Having the middle lower than the border; concave.
Example Sentences:
(1) He's Billy no-mates with a Heckler & Koch sniper-rifle, drowning in loneliness, booze and depression.
(2) Thyroid replacement led to resolution of both apnea and depression.
(3) During and after the infusion of 5HTP, none of the patients showed an increase in anxiety or depressive symptoms, despite the presence of severe side effects.
(4) Sixteen patients in whom schizophrenia was initially diagnosed and who were treated with fluphenazine enanthate or decanoate developed severe depression for a short period after the injection.
(5) Further, at the end of treatment fewer patients had depressive symptoms and the total daily number of hours of wellbeing and normal movement increased.
(6) The active agents modestly improved treadmill exercise duration time until 1 mm ST segment depression (3%), and only propranolol and diltiazem had significant effects.
(7) The ED50 and ED95 of mivacurium in each group were estimated from linear regression plots of log dose vs probit of maximum percentage depression of neuromuscular function.
(8) The data are compared with the results from 79 patients with a bipolar depression, 192 with a neurotic depression and 89 with a depressive reaction.
(9) A similar depressed receptor function was observed for C3b, fibronectin, and some lectins.
(10) From these results, it was suggested that the inhibitory effect of Cd on in vitro calcification of MC3T3-E1 cells may be due to both a depression of cell-mediated calcification and a decrease in physiochemical mineral deposition.
(11) Both treatments depressed nocturnal pineal melatonin content in rats and hamsters.
(12) Infusion of sodium lactate associated with isoproterenol could be used to combat the depressent effects of betablockers in patients with cardiac disorders.
(13) We studied the effects of the localisation and size of ischemic brain infarcts and the influence of potential covariates (gender, age, time since infarction, physical handicap, cognitive impairment, aphasia, cortical atrophy and ventricular size) on 'post-stroke depression'.
(14) The literature on depression and immunity is reviewed and the clinical implications of our findings are discussed.
(15) Subthreshold concentrations of the drug to induce complete blockade (5 x 10(-8)M) allowed to observe a greater depression of bioelectric cell characteristics in primary than in transitional fibres.
(16) However, a recrudescence in both psychotic and depressive symptoms developed as plasma desipramine levels rose 4 times higher than anticipated from the oral doses prescribed.
(17) These results indicate that the hormonal status should be taken into consideration in studies dealing with platelet MAO activity in depressed women.
(18) Three coyotes were operantly conditioned to depress one of two foot treadles, left or right, depending on the condition of the stimulus light.
(19) Although esmolol may be used as a primary hypotensive agent, the potential for marked myocardial depression must be recognized.
(20) Subjects who reported incidents of childhood sexual exploitation had lower levels of self-esteem and higher levels of depression than the comparison group.
Depressor
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, presses down; an oppressor.
(n.) A muscle that depresses or tends to draw down a part.
Example Sentences:
(1) Concerning the descending influences, it was found that stimulation of the anterior hypothalamus evokes depressor reactions, whereas stimulation of the posterior hypothalamus results in pressor reactions.
(2) These results show the existence of a depressor response and decreases in HR and RNA in the rabbit mediated by the action of BK on cardiac sympathetic afferents.
(3) An increased activity of the renin-angiotensin system seen in most cosmonauts at an acute stage of readaptation was correlated with a higher concentration of cAMP and a lower concentration of depressor prostaglandins.
(4) Three factors that are considered necessary to obtain satisfactory function of the soft palate for speech are (1) adequate length, (2) adequate mobility, which should include consideration of resting tension and elasticity of the levator and depressor muscles, and (3) the need for conformity of the dorsal surface to the pharyngeal wall, which this paper seeks to emphasize.
(5) Neither calcium antagonists, indomethacin or L-NAME modified the initial depressor response to endothelin.
(6) Intravenous injection (iv) of clonidine significantly induced depressor and bradycardiac responses in rats.
(7) We conclude that neither the depressor nor the pressor response evoked by stimulation or inhibition of the CVLM is dependent on the integrity of the nTS.
(8) During vibration of the depressor muscles with the mandible in its rest position the subjects underestimated an opening movement, but fixation of the mandible caused no illusions of movement.
(9) It was found crucial to keep intact the structures of the ponto-medullary junction, as well as the most rostral part of the medulla for sharp decrease of the pressor reflexes or for the appearance of the depressor ones, instead.
(10) The short term natriuretic response to either a NaCl load or ANP infusion is greater in obese vs lean Zuckers and the depressor response to ANP is intact in obese Zuckers.
(11) Higher doses of KA also produced a secondary prolonged depressor response in WKY but not SH rats.
(12) The results showed that (1) the nerve damage in chronic glaucoma was due to multiple factors; (2) the use of a drug that improved microcirculation in combination with an IOP depressor better protected the optic nerve functions than did the latter alone; and (3) Inj.
(13) Finally, microinjections of lidocaine into the ventrolateral funiculus (VLF) or transections of the dorsolateral funiculus (DLF) of the thoracic spinal cord attenuated VAS-produced effects on neuronal responses, but did not affect VAS-induced depressor responses.
(14) Prolonged low frequency stimulation of the sciatic nerve in conscious spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR), is reported to induce a naloxone-reversible long-lasting depressor response (Yao et al.
(15) The anatomical features of the peptidergic innervation and the levels of proctolinlike immunoreactivity of one muscle group, the coxal depressor system, are here described in detail.
(16) The structural organization of the adrenergic (sympathetic) component of the autonomic innervation of the depressor zone of the cat aortic arch was studied by luminescence microscopy of the catecholamines.
(17) However, depressor responses induced by PAF and ACh in diabetic rats were attenuated more than those in control rats.
(18) In contrast, depressor responses to sodium nitroprusside were not significantly altered in pregnancy.
(19) It was shown the deterioration of the parametres which characterize a capacitance function of the spleen by stimulation of a causal depressor zone of the brainstem by means of the current of threshold size and its increase by irritation of the brain structures with a 2 threshold current size.
(20) The possibility that putative transmitters may influence the aortic nerve stimulation-produced bradycardia and depressor responses was examined in urethane- and chloralose-anesthetized, paralyzed and artificially ventilated rabbits.