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adductor
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun adductor has 1 sense
- adductor(n = noun.body) adductor muscle - a muscle that draws a body part toward the median line; Array is a kind of skeletal muscle, striated muscle
has particulars: musculus adductor brevis, musculus adductor longus, great adductor muscle, musculus adductor magnus, musculus adductor hallucis
Derived form verb adduct1
CIDE DICTIONARY
adductor, n. [L., fr. adducere.].
A muscle which draws a limb or part of the body toward the middle line of the body, or closes extended parts of the body; -- opposed to abductor ; as, the adductor of the eye, which turns the eye toward the nose. [1913 Webster]
"In the bivalve shells, the muscles which close the values of the shell are called adductor muscles."
[1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
adductor, n. (in full adductor muscle) any muscle that moves one part of the body towards another or towards the middle line of the body.
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