Adductor

==English==
===Etymology===
Latin, from adducere.
===Noun===
# 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.
#* Verrill: 
#*: In the bivalve shells, the muscles which close the values of the shell are called adductor muscles.
====Usage notes====
* The alternative spelling adductores is sometimes used to refere to the plural of the muscles.
====Antonyms====
* abductor
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