adductor
Noun
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A muscle that draws a body part toward the median line (synset 105299227)
hypernym: skeletal muscle, striated muscle - a muscle that is connected at either or both ends to a bone and so move parts of the skeleton; a muscle that is characterized by transverse stripeshyponym:
- musculus adductor brevis - the short adductor muscle of the thigh
- musculus adductor longus - the long adductor muscle of the thigh
- great adductor muscle, musculus adductor magnus - the muscle that adducts and extends the thigh
- musculus adductor hallucis - the adductor muscle of the great toe
synonym: adductor muscle
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