adductor : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: adductor	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for adductor
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
adductor n a muscle that draws a body part toward the median line Synonym(s): adductor, adductor muscle
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Adductor \Adduc"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. In the bivalve shells, the muscles which close the values of the shell are called adductor muscles. --Verrill.