noun. A muscle that draws a body part, such as a finger, arm, or toe, inward toward the median axis of the body or of an extremity.

noun. adductors (-torz) or adductores (ad-uk-tō′ rēz). In anatomy and zoology, that which adducts; specifically, the name of several muscles which draw certain parts to or toward one common center or median line: the opposite of abductor.

Of or pertaining to an adductor; having the function of adducting; adducent: as, the adductor muscles of the thigh: opposed to abductor.

In malacology, the muscles which draw together or close the valves in bivalve mollusks. See cut under Waldheimia.

noun. 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.

noun. 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; as, the adductor of the eye, which turns the eye toward the nose.

noun. a muscle that draws a body part toward the median line

"Where Mr. Calderwood lost me was when he described a tear to his right inner thigh adductor muscle that probably called for him to hang up his running shoes indefinitely."

abductor  

adductor arcuum  adductor branchiarum  adductor brevis  adductor digiti tertii  adductor hallucis  

skeletal muscle  striated muscle  

great adductor muscle  musculus adductor brevis  musculus adductor hallucis  musculus adductor longus  musculus adductor magnus  

Spica  abductor  bulbar  cardsharp  ciliary