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Definition of Great adductor muscle
1. Noun. The muscle that adducts and extends the thigh.
Generic synonyms: Adductor, Adductor Muscle
Group relationships: Thigh
Medical Definition of Great adductor muscle
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Great Adductor Muscle
Literary usage of Great adductor muscle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Fish-culture: Based on the Methods of the United States by United States Bureau of Fisheries, John J. Brice, Henry Frank Moore, Frederick M. Chamberlain (1897)
"The soft parts being firmly fixed or held fast by the great adductor muscle to
the left valve prevents the animal from slipping under the end of the pipette ..."
2. Anatomical terminology, with special reference to the (B N A) by Lewellys Franklin Barker (1907)
"... Pectineus muscle Long adductor muscle Slender muscle Short adductor muscle
great adductor muscle Smallest adductor muscle (OT upper portion of adductor ..."
3. Elements of human anatomy: General, Descriptive, and Practical by Tobias Gibson Richardson (1854)
"The great adductor muscle (adductor magnus), is situated between the three
preceding and the muscles upon the back of the thigh. ..."
4. A Laboratory Manual of Human Anatomy by Lewellys Franklin Barker, Dean De Witt Lewis, Daniel Graisberry Revell (1904)
"(b) Smallest adductor muscle (M. adductor minimus) (0. T. upper portion of adductor
magnus). (c) great adductor muscle (M. adductor magnus). ..."
5. Outlines of comparative anatomy by Robert Edmond Grant (1841)
"The two symmetrical columns of ganglionic and simple nerves, continuing backwards
beneath the ovary to the inferior surface of the great adductor muscle of ..."
6. The Popular Encyclopedia: Being a General Dictionary of Arts, Sciences by Daniel Keyte Sandford, Thomas Thomson, Allan Cunningham (1837)
"... the abdomen ; xt the intestinal c.tual ; gt the mouth, ornamented with a
fringe ; h, the great adductor muscle. 1 he animals of this genus possess ..."
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