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US
/æbˈdəktɝ, əbˈdəktɝ/
]
[ UK /ɐbdˈʌktɐ/ ]
[ UK /ɐbdˈʌktɐ/ ]
NOUN
- a muscle that draws a body part away from the median line
- someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom)
How To Use abductor In A Sentence
- While the quads, hamstrings and glutes work hard in both versions, the abductors and adductors help stabilize the body when your balance is challenged.
- The plates that cover the opening to the barnacle are operated by several sets of muscles: the scutal depressor muscles, the scutal abductor muscle, and the tergal depressor muscle. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
- Your lower-body muscles include: the quadriceps, the hamstrings, the gluteus maximus, the abductors, the adductors, and the gastrocnemius and soleus of your calves.
- Among the nine US citizens missing is a man known to have been kidnapped and whose abductors have threatened to kill him.
- This also works the adductors (inner thigh, pulling muscle) and the abductors (outer thigh, pushing muscle).
- This exercise engages spinal extensors, hamstrings, abductors and stabilizers.
- The Hearst kidnapping was one of the first examples of the Stockholm Syndrome - where kidnap victims come to identify with their abductors as a means of survival.
- The scutal depressor muscles, the scutal abductor muscle, and the tergal depressor muscle are used to open and close the two plates that cover the opening to the barnacle. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
- From hour to hour yesterday I expected to hear that he had been found, and that his abductor was the murderer of John Straker. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
- He felt a sharp pain in the abductor muscle in his right thigh.