Definitions for adductor

adductor ad·duc·tor

Spelling: [uh-duhk-ter]
IPA: /əˈdʌk tər/

Adductor is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 218 anagrams from letters in adductor (acddortu).

Definitions for adductor

noun

  1. any muscle that adducts (opposed to abductor).

Origin of adductor

1740-50; New Latin, Late Latin: conductor. See adduce, -tor

Examples for adductor

adductor, ad-dukt′ur, n. a muscle which draws one part towards another.

There is a deep and conspicuous pit for the adductor muscle.

adductor mandibulae: the muscle that draws in or closes the mandible.

In one leg, the entire muscle is indistinguishably fused with M. adductor profundus and they appear as a single muscle.

He has a big muscle called an adductor that closes his shell.

The orbit is not completely walled off from the adductor chamber.

The whole of the posterior half of the adductor chamber is unoccupied.

There is no hollow or crest for the adductor muscle, which is small.

The mark of the bite was there between the adductor tendons.

Branches supply the stifle and the adductor and pectineus muscles.

Word Value for adductor
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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