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adductor

Syllables: ad·duc·tor/əˈdʌktə/US/əˈdʌktəɹ/

adductor noun: 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.

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Noun

adductor (plural adductors or adductores)

  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.
    • He has also shown that the adductor muscles of the dactyl are very strong and so arranged as to produce the effect , while the opposing muscles are slender1908, Addison Emery Verrill, Decapod Crustacea of Bermuda

adductor meaning in Tamil, Kannada and Malay

adductor in Tamil

உள்வாங்கி, அடக்கி, ஒடுக்கி, உள்ளிழுப்புத் தசை, மடக்குதசை, முன் இழுக்கும் இயல்புடைய தசைநார்

adductor in Kannada

ಒಳಸರಿಕ, ಒಳಗೆಳೆಕ, ಒಳತರುಗ

adductor in Malay

muscle
aduktor

Forms of adductor

pluraladductors
pluraladductores

Origin of adductor

From Latin adduco. Equivalent to adduct + -or.

Questions about adductor

What does adductor mean?
Adductor means 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.
What is adductor in Tamil?
Adductor in Tamil is உள்வாங்கி, அடக்கி, ஒடுக்கி. See Adductor meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is adductor?
Adductor is a noun.
How do you pronounce adductor?
Adductor is pronounced /əˈdʌktəɹ/ (US).
What is the plural of adductor?
The plural of adductor is adductors.

Words near adductor in the dictionary

  1. adductions
  2. adductive
  3. adductively
  4. adductome
  5. adductomes
  6. adductor
  7. adductor hiatus
  8. adductor longus
  9. adductores
  10. adductors
  11. adductory

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Adapted from Wiktionary: adductor (page history and authors); adductor (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); adductor (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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