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adductor |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Adductor \Ad*duc"tor\, n. [L., fr adducere.] (Anat.) 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. In the bivalve shells, the muscles which close the values of the shell are called adductor muscles. --Verrill. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: adductor n : a muscle that draws a part toward the median line [syn: {adductor muscle}]
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