tongue depressor

English

Noun

tongue depressor (plural tongue depressors)

1. A long narrow smooth piece of wood designed to depress the tongue, to allow for examination of the rear of the oral cavity.
2. (less commonly) Any device used to depress the tongue.

Translations

piece of wood

• Armenian: բահակ (hy) (bahak)
• Finnish: lasta (fi)
• Greek:

  Ancient: βούγλωσσον n (boúglōsson)

• Irish: spadal teanga m
• Turkish: dil basacağı (tr)

device used to depress the tongue

• Catalan: abaixallengües m
• Czech: špátle f
• French: abaisse-langue (fr)
• German: Mundspatel m or f
• Greek: γλωσσοπίεστρο (el) n (glossopíestro)

  Ancient: βούγλωσσον n (boúglōsson)

• Polish: szpatułka (pl) f, kopystka językowa f
• Russian: языкодержатель (ru) (jazykoderžatelʹ)

Further reading

• tongue depressor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia