0 a small piece of wood used by a doctor to hold someone's tongue down in order to examine their mouth or throat --
His first invention, as a child, was for a lighted tongue depressor that his father, a local physician, could use.
Winnicott placed a shiny tongue depressor at the edge of the table and conveyed how he wished the adult to contribute as little as possible to what happened next.
A recent competition had students building bridges using tongue depressors and glue, with bridges spanning more than four feet.
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.
For example: engineered wood, millwork, cabinets, furniture, tongue depressors or popsicle sticks, just to name a few.
Since they are inexpensive and difficult to clean, wooden tongue depressors are normally labeled for disposal after a single use.
Invasive fungal infections and contaminated tongue depressors.
Oropharyngeal secretions were collected from children using sterile cotton-tipped applicator swabs with tongue depressors to visualize the oropharynx.
