Library / English Dictionary

ADDUCTOR

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A muscle that draws a body part toward the median line

Synonyms:

adductor; adductor muscle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

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

skeletal muscle; striated muscle (a muscle that is connected at either or both ends to a bone and so move parts of the skeleton; a muscle that is characterized by transverse stripes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "adductor"):

musculus adductor brevis (the short adductor muscle of the thigh)

musculus adductor longus (the long adductor muscle of the thigh)

great adductor muscle; musculus adductor magnus (the muscle that adducts and extends the thigh)

musculus adductor hallucis (the adductor muscle of the great toe)

Derivation:

adduct (draw a limb towards the body)

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