ADDUCTOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does adductor mean? 

• ADDUCTOR (noun)
  The noun ADDUCTOR has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: ADDUCTOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADDUCTOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A muscle that draws a body part toward the median line

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

adductor; adductor muscle

Hypernyms ("adductor" is a kind of...):

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 stripes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "adductor"):

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)

Derivation:

adduct (draw a limb towards the body)

 Context examples 

One of four arteries arising from the profunda femoris that pass through the adductor magnus muscle to supply the back of the thigh.

(Perforating Artery of the Thigh, NCI Thesaurus)

A vein that drains the hip joint, obturator, and adductor muscles of the thigh into the internal iliac vein.

(Obturator Vein, NCI Thesaurus)

It is responsible for the sensory innervation of the skin of the medial aspect of the thigh and also responsible for the motor innervation of the adductor muscles of the lower extremity.

(Obturator Nerve, NCI Thesaurus)

An artery arising from the anterior or posterior trunk of the internal iliac artery that supplies the ilium and pubic bones as well as the obturator and adductor muscles.

(Obturator Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

A blood vessel arising from the profunda artery with one branch supplying the hip joint and two other branches supplying the adductor muscles in the upper inner thigh.

(Internal Circumflex Artery, NCI Thesaurus)