ADDUCTION

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

(physiology) moving of a body part toward the central axis of the body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("adduction" is a kind of...):

motility; motion; move; movement (a change of position that does not entail a change of location)

Domain category:

physiology (the branch of the biological sciences dealing with the functioning of organisms)

Derivation:

adduct (draw a limb towards the body)

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