adductor

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
14
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/əˈdʌktɚ/

Definition of adductor

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  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 slender”

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Etymology

From Latin adduco. Equivalent to adduct + -or.

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