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Polish
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin adductor.[1] First attested in 1882.[2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /adˈduk.tɔr/
- Rhymes: -uktɔr
- Syllabification: ad‧duk‧tor
Noun
adduktor m inan
- (anatomy) adductor (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)
- Synonym: przywodziciel
- Hypernym: mięsień
- Coordinate terms: abduktor, odwodziciel
Declension
References
- ^ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “adduktor”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
- ^ Przegląd lekarski: wyd. staraniem oddzialu nauk przyrodniczych i lekarskich towarzystwa naukowego Krakowskiego (in Polish), 1882, page 540
Further reading
- adduktor in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- adduktor in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego