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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)
- (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)
- adducer
- adductor
Latin
Etymology
From addūcō + -tor.
Pronunciation
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.