adduction

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage)

Borrowed from Latin adductio, adductionis, from adducō (“I bring to myself”), from ad + ducō (“I lead”). Compare French adduction. See adduce.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈdʌk.ʃn̩/
• (anatomy sense): (for emphasis and disambiguation from abduction) IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.ˈdiː.dʌk.ʃn̩/

Noun

adduction (countable and uncountable, plural adductions)

1. The act of adducing or bringing forward.
   • I. Taylor

     an adduction of facts gathered from various quarters

2. (anatomy) The action by which the parts of the body are drawn towards its axis; -- opposed to abduction.

Translations

act

• Finnish: esittäminen (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Ido: addukto (io)

physiology: action

• Finnish: lähennys, adduktio (fi)
• Hindi: अभिवर्तन (hi) (abhivartan)
• Ido: addukto (io)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: adução f
• Spanish: aducción (es)

References

• “adduction”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adductio, adductionem.

Pronunciation

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Noun

adduction f (plural adductions)

1. adduction (all senses)