adductor

English

Etymology

From Latin adduco.

Noun

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.

   • Verrill:

     In the bivalve shells, the muscles which close the values of the shell are called adductor muscles.

Coordinate terms

• abductor

Related terms

• adduction

Translations

muscle

• Catalan: adductor m
• Finnish: lähentäjälihas (fi), adduktori (fi)
• French: adducteur (fr)
• Japanese: 内転筋 (naitenkin)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Malay: aduktor
• Portuguese: adutor (pt) m
• Spanish: aductor (es)

---

Interlingua

Noun

adductor (plural adductores)

1. adducer
2. adductor

---

Latin

Etymology

From addūcō +‎ -tor

Pronunciation

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

Noun

adductor m (genitive adductōris); third declension

1. a procurer

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	adductor	adductōrēs
Genitive	adductōris	adductōrum
Dative	adductōrī	adductōribus
Accusative	adductōrem	adductōrēs
Ablative	adductōre	adductōribus
Vocative	adductor	adductōrēs

References

• “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.