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Adductor n. (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."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... applied the term Scutum to the most important and persistent of the valves, and which can generally be recognised by the hollow giving attachment to the adductor scutorum muscle, from the resemblance which the two valves taken together bear to a shield, and from their office of protecting the front side of the body. From the protection afforded by the two Terga to the dorso-lateral surface of the ...

— A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 1 of 2) - The Lepadidae; or, Pedunculated Cirripedes • Charles Darwin

... tendon of the latter and descends under cover of the sartorious over the terminal part of the iliopsoas. It innervates the psoas major (magnus), psoas minor (parvus), sartorious, rectus femoris, vastus lateralis (interims). Branches supply the stifle and the adductor and pectineus muscles. ...

— Lameness of the Horse - Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 • John Victor Lacroix

Words linked to "Adductor" : musculus adductor hallucis, great adductor muscle, adductor muscle, adduct, skeletal muscle, musculus adductor longus, musculus adductor brevis, striated muscle, musculus adductor magnus