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Depression (anatomical nomenclature)

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Depression is used anatomically to describe the movement inferiorly or lowering down of a body part. Thus, a depressor muscle would be one that draws down part of the body, and a depressed skull fracture indicates a break in the skull bone with a piece compressed downwards relative to the surrounding bone.

Depression is the opposite of elevation.


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