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Definition of Adductive
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 Adductive
1. a. Adducing, or bringing towards or to something.
Definition of Adductive
1. Adjective. Adducing, or bringing towards or to something. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Adductive
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adductive
Literary usage of Adductive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A New Classification of the Motor Anomalies of the Eye: Based Upon by Alexander Duane (1897)
"It will also be apparent how the lateral action of each of these muscles diminishes
as its vertical action Increases; so that the adductive power of the ..."
2. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor by Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1852)
"But then if we ask what conversion it is; after a great many fancies and devices
contradicting each other, at last it is found to be adductive, and yet that ..."
3. A Text-book on diseases of the eye by Henry Drury Noyes (1894)
"We may sometimes properly give prisms of different degrees for the respective
positions, but we ought not to give adductive prisms ..."
4. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year: Fitted to the Great by Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber (1828)
"But then if we ask what conversion it is? after a great many fancies and devices,
contradicting each other, at last it is found to be ' adductive,'—and yet ..."
5. The Whole Works ; with an Essay Biographical and Critical by Jeremy Taylor (1835)
"But then if we ask what conversion it is ? after a great many fancies and devices,
contradicting each other, at last it is found to be ' adductive,'—and yet ..."
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