0 a small piece of wood used by a doctor to hold someone's tongue down in order to examine their mouth or throat
For infants, passively elevating the tongue tip with a tongue depressor may reveal the problem.
Tongue depressor sticks are strongly recommended for construction as they have lower tension than craft sticks and thus are easier to work with.
The health professional will press the tongue down with a flat stick ("tongue depressor") and then examine the mouth and throat.
Oropharyngeal secretions were collected from children using sterile cotton-tipped applicator swabs with tongue depressors to visualize the oropharynx.
Invasive fungal infections and contaminated tongue depressors.
Since they are inexpensive and difficult to clean, wooden tongue depressors are normally labeled for disposal after a single use.
For example: engineered wood, millwork, cabinets, furniture, tongue depressors or popsicle sticks, just to name a few.
Examples range from simple devices such as tongue depressors, medical thermometers, and disposable gloves to advanced devices such as medical robots, cardiac pacemakers, and neuroprosthetics.