Adductor

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Adductor \Ad*duc"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.
     [1913 Webster]


  
           In the bivalve shells, the muscles which close the
           values of the shell are called adductor muscles.
                                                    --Verrill.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  adductor
       n : a muscle that draws a part toward the median line [syn: {adductor
           muscle}]