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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a muscle that draws a body part toward the median line;
[syn: adductor, adductor muscle]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Adductor \Ad*duc"tor\, n. [L., fr. adducere.] (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. [1913 Webster] In the bivalve shells, the muscles which close the values of the shell are called adductor muscles. --Verrill. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

adductor n 1: a muscle that draws a body part toward the median line [syn: adductor, adductor muscle]