Adductor Definition

ə-dŭktər
adductors
noun
adductors
A muscle that draws a body part, such as a finger, arm, or toe, inward toward the median axis of the body or of an extremity.
American Heritage Medicine

(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.

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
  • adductor muscle

Other Word Forms of Adductor

Noun

Singular:
adductor
Plural:
adductores, adductors

Origin of Adductor

  • New Latin from Latin addūcere adduct- to bring to, contract adduce

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Latin, from adducere.

    From Wiktionary

Adductor Sentence Examples

  • This columella muscle is the same thing as the muscles adhering to the shell in Patella, and the posterior adductor of Lamellibranchs.

  • The hinder adductor muscle is always large in Lamellibranchs, but the anterior adductor may be very small (Heteromya), or absent altogether (Monomya).

  • The heart and pericardial chamber in the oyster lie along the anterior face of the adductor muscle, almost perpendicular to the direction of the gills, with which in Anodon they are parallel.

  • The edible part of the scallop is the pale adductor muscle and orange roe (coral ).

  • The bivalved carapace has a jointed rostrum, and covers only the front part of the body, to which it is only attached quite in front, the valve-like sides being under control of an adductor muscle.

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Words Starting With

AADADD

Words Ending With

RORTOR

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