Adductor

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. 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.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • 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.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. adductors (-torz) or adductores (ad-uk-tō′ rēz). In anatomy and zoology, that which adducts; specifically, the name of several muscles which draw certain parts to or toward one common center or median line: the opposite of abductor.
  • Of or pertaining to an adductor; having the function of adducting; adducent: as, the adductor muscles of the thigh: opposed to abductor.
  • In malacology, the muscles which draw together or close the valves in bivalve mollusks. See cut under Waldheimia.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a muscle that draws a body part toward the median line
    • Antonym
    abductor   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    striated muscle    skeletal muscle   
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