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adductor
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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /əˈdʌktɚ/
- Hyphenation: ad‧duc‧tor
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
adductor (plural adductors or adductores)
- (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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muscle
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Interlingua
Noun
adductor (plural adductores)
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [adˈdʊk.tɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ad̪ˈd̪uk.t̪or]
Noun
adductor m (genitive adductōris); third declension
- 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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