adductor

From Latin adduco. Equivalent to adduct +‎ -or.

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

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adductor (plural adductors or adductores)

1. (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

• abductor

• adduction

adductor (plural adductores)

1. adducer
2. adductor

From addūcō +‎ -tor.

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

adductor m (genitive adductōris); third declension

1. a procurer

Third-declension noun.

• “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.