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Definition of Adducent
1. Adjective. Especially of muscles; bringing together or drawing toward the midline of the body or toward an adjacent part.
Category relationships: Physiology
Antonyms: Abducent
Derivative terms: Adduct
Definition of Adducent
1. a. Bringing together or towards a given point; -- a word applied to those muscles of the body which pull one part towards another. Opposed to abducent.
Definition of Adducent
1. Adjective. (physiology) Related to the muscles of the body which pull one part towards another. Opposed to abducent. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Adducent
1. serving to adduct [adj]
Medical Definition of Adducent
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Adducent
Literary usage of Adducent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A dictionary of the German terms used in medicine by George Rogers Cutter (1879)
"... m., adducent muscle, adductor ; levator. Aufweichen, va, to mollify, soften ;
to open by mollifying or softening (as ulcers, etc.). ..."
2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1912)
"Now, what we wish to emphasize is that our results show that voluntary increase
of the attention partially consists of increase of such adducent processes ..."
3. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke (1810)
"Immediately below these lie the adducent vessels, or arteries : they are the
largest of all 'the vegetable vessels, rise immediately from the ..."
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