In children under two years of age the thymus gland may extend for some distance into the neck in front of the trachea and carotid vessels, under cover of the depressors of the hyoid bone.
"Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition."
Alexander Miles Alexis Thomson
Avoid blood-letting and poisons, for they are powerful depressors of the vital energies.
"The American Reformed Cattle Doctor"
George Dadd
These tendencies and characteristics are all largely determined by the "depressors," "suppressors," and "determiners" which were present in the two microscopic and mosaic germ cells which united to start the embryo at the time of conception.
"The Mother and Her Child"
William S. Sadler Lena K. Sadler