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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. especially of muscles; bringing together or drawing toward the midline of the body or toward an adjacent part;
[syn: adducent, adductive, adducting]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Adducent \Ad*du"cent\, a. [L. addunces, p. pr. of adducere.] (Physiol.) Bringing together or towards a given point; -- a word applied to those muscles of the body which pull one part towards another. Opposed to abducent. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

adducent adj 1: especially of muscles; bringing together or drawing toward the midline of the body or toward an adjacent part [syn: adducent, adductive, adducting] [ant: abducent, abducting]