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ADDUCT

\ɐdˈʌkt], \ɐdˈʌkt], \ɐ_d_ˈʌ_k_t]\

Definitions of ADDUCT

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
1900 - A dictionary of medicine and the allied sciences
1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
1898 - American pocket medical dictionary

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To draw towards a common center or a middle line.

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
By Oddity Software

To draw towards a common center or a middle line.

1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
By Noah Webster.

To draw toward the median line.

1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop

[Latin] To draw toward the median line. Of the arm, thigh, and leg, to draw their distal extremities toward the antero-posterior median plane of the body; of the hand, to draw its extremities toward the ulnar side of the forearm; of the foot, to rotate its extremity toward the median plane of the body; of the fingers or toes, to draw their distal extremities toward the median line of the hand or foot (but, according to some, to draw them toward the median plane of the body= for the two inner toes and fingers abduction in the ordinary sense of the word) ; of the eye, to rotate in a horizontal plane toward the nose.

1900 - A dictionary of medicine and the allied sciences
By Alexander Duane

(physiol.). Draw to a common centre.

1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
By Sir Augustus Henry

To draw entad, or toward a center.

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland

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