Crossword-Solution: ADDUCTOR
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Adductor | n. | 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. |
We have 7 clues for the answer “ADDUCTOR”
| Clue | Answers |
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| BODY muscle causing movement at hip joint | 2 answers |
| MUSCLE causing movement at hip joint | 2 answers |
| MUSCLE of the thigh | 5 answers |
| THIGH muscle(s) | 8 answers |
| A MUSCLE THAT DRAWS A BODY PART TOWARD THE MEDIAN LINE | 11 answers |
| MUSCLE of the body | 18 answers |
| BODY muscle(s) | 22 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with ADDUCTOR (5)
The left testicle lay on the tendon of the adductor longus in the left groin; it was not fully developed, but the patient had sexual desires, erections, and emissions.
Bivalves have two valves, fitting together along a toothed hinge on one side, and kept closed by means of ADDUCTOR MUSCLES.
Branches supply the following muscles--obturator, semimembranosus (adductor magnus), biceps femoris (triceps abductor femoris), semitendinosus (biceps rotator tibialis), lateral extensor (peroneus) and the tibial nerve, its continuation, innervates the digital flexors.
Adduction of the thumb is carried out, not by the paralysed adductor pollicis, but the movement may be simulated by the long flexor and extensor muscles of the thumb.
The _adductor longus_ may be ruptured, or torn from the pubes, by a violent effort to adduct the limb.