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Definition of Adductor
1. Noun. A muscle that draws a body part toward the median line.
Generic synonyms: Skeletal Muscle, Striated Muscle
Specialized synonyms: Musculus Adductor Brevis, Musculus Adductor Longus, Great Adductor Muscle, Musculus Adductor Magnus, Musculus Adductor Hallucis
Derivative terms: Adduct
Definition of Adductor
1. n. 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.
Definition of Adductor
1. Noun. (anatomy) 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. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Adductor
1. an adducent muscle [n -S]
Medical Definition of Adductor
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Adductor
Literary usage of Adductor
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"The adductor brevis is situated immediately behind the two preceding muscles.
It is somewhat triangular in form, and arises by a narrow origin from the ..."
2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1916)
"In addition, I wish to make in passing some observations on the adductor responses
of the arms, these responses being, so far as I know, in general new to ..."
3. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"adductor longus. adductor magnus. Pectineus. adductor brevis. Dissection.—These
muscles are at once exposed by removing the fascia from the forepart and ..."
4. The Comparative anatomy of the domesticated animals by Auguste Chauveau (1887)
"It is a somewhat extensive flexor of the thumb. 4. adductor of the Index. (Fig.
125, D, 12.) Synonym.—The adductor of the thumb in Man. ..."
5. The Anatomy and Physiology of the Human Body by John Bell, Charles Bell (1829)
"The adductor BREVIS lies under the adductor longus, and is of another layer of
muscles ; for as the first layer consists of the ..."
6. Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1893)
"He records and figures a case in which the adductor muscle of the thumb of au
adult man presented three distinct fasciculi, viz. ..."
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