adductor

English

Etymology

From Latin adduco. Equivalent to adduct +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈdʌktɚ/
• Hyphenation: ad‧duc‧tor

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Noun

adductor (plural adductors or adductores)

2. (anatomy) 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.

   • 1908, Addison Emery Verrill, Decapod Crustacea of Bermuda:

     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

Coordinate terms

• abductor

Related terms

• adduction

Translations

muscle

• Catalan: adductor m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 內收肌 / 内收肌 (zh) (nèishōujī)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: lähentäjälihas (fi), adduktori (fi)
• French: adducteur (fr)
• German: Adduktor (de) m
• Hungarian: közelítő izom
• Japanese: 内転筋 (naitenkin)
• Malay: aduktor
• Polish: przywodziciel (pl) m, adduktor (pl) m
• Portuguese: adutor (pt) m
• Russian: приводя́щая мы́шца f (privodjáščaja mýšca)
• Spanish: aductor (es)
• Swedish: adduktor c
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can

Interlingua

Noun

adductor (plural adductores)

1. adducer
2. adductor

Latin

Etymology

From addūcō +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /adˈduk.tor/, [äd̪ˈd̪ʊkt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /adˈduk.tor/, [äd̪ˈd̪ukt̪or]

Noun

adductor m (genitive adductōris); third declension

1. a procurer

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	adductor	adductōrēs
genitive	adductōris	adductōrum
dative	adductōrī	adductōribus
accusative	adductōrem	adductōrēs
ablative	adductōre	adductōribus
vocative	adductor	adductōrēs

References

• “adductor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• adductor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.