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adductor

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English

Etymology

From Latin adduco. Equivalent to adduct + -or.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /əˈdʌktɚ/
  • Hyphenation: ad‧duc‧tor

Noun

adductor (plural adductors or adductores)

  1. (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.
    The adductor of the eye turns the eye toward the nose.
    • 1908, Addison Emery Verrill, Decapod Crustacea of Bermuda:
      He has also shown that the adductor muscles of the dactyl are very strong and so arranged as to produce the effect , while the opposing muscles are slender

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Interlingua

Noun

adductor (plural adductores)

  1. adducer
  2. adductor

Latin

Etymology

From addūcō + -tor.

Pronunciation

Noun

adductor m (genitive adductōris); third declension

  1. a procurer

Declension

Third-declension noun.

References

  • adductor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • adductor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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