adductor

From Latin adduco. Equivalent to adduct +‎ -or.

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

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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

• abductor

adductor (plural adductores)

1. adducer
2. adductor

From addūcō +‎ -tor.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [adˈdʊk.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ad̪ˈd̪uk.t̪or]

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.