Compressor

(kom-presf -or). I.An instrument for compre ing an artery, vein, etc. 2. It is also applied to muscles having a coming function, as the C. nan's, C. vence dorsal is penis, See Muscles, Table of. 3. One of the light springs inserted on either side of the stage of a microscope for holding the slide in position; a clip. C. sacculi laryngis, the inferior aryteno-epiglottideus muscle. See Muscles, Table of. C. urpthrae, constrictor urethra. See Muscles, Table of. ompre orium (kom-pres-o/ re-um). An instrument devised for making pre ure on the cover-gla of a microscope-slide in order to favor separation of the elements of the specimen to be examined, omptonia (komp-to' -ne-ah). A genus of plants. C. asp len i folia. See Liquidambar .