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Definition of Adducting
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 Adducting
1. Verb. (present participle of adduct) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Adducting
1. adduct [v] - See also: adduct
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adducting
Literary usage of Adducting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern ophthalmology: A Practical Treatise on the Anatomy, Physiology, and by James Moores Ball (1908)
"The adducting power is low and difficult to develop, and the abducting power is
normal, slightly increased, or decreased. In Excessive Divergence there is ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1894)
"muscles, but the relation between the abducting and adducting power is greatly
disturbed, adducting being but 15° while abducting is 6°. ..."
3. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1912)
"Eliminate muscular action by an anaesthetic or other means; relax the structures
by adducting or abducting the femur; rotate the limb until the ..."
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