Meaning

1 senses
  1. 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.

    Adduktor

    приводя́щая мы́шцаprivodjáščaja mýšca

    a muscle that draws a body part toward the median line

Translations

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Русский
By meaning 1
muscle:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
muscle:

Origin

From Latin adduco. Equivalent to adduct + -or.

From Latin adduco. Equivalent to adduct + -or.

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Forms

plural: adductors / adductores
Singularadductor
Pluraladductors / adductores

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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