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.