Helen Fenton

Adductor: Definition and part of speech

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Adductor

  1. n. 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.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Adduction: Definition and part of speech

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Adduction

  1. n. The action by which the parts of the body are drawn towards its axis]; — opposed to abduction.
  2. n. The act of adducing or bringing forward.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Adducent: Definition and part of speech

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Adducent

  1. a. Bringing together or towards a given point; — a word applied to those muscles of the body which pull one part towards another. Opposed to abducent.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Adduce: Definition and part of speech

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Adduce

  1. v. t. To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.