adductor muscle

NOUN
  1. a muscle that draws a body part toward the median line
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How To Use adductor muscle In A Sentence

  • Separately, a sample of somatic tissue (the terminal tip of the foot or adductor muscle) was also taken from each specimen.
  • Bilateral thigh pain or weakness with atrophy of the iliopsoas, quadriceps, and adductor muscles also may be present.
  • The adductor muscle group is often a source of pain in these overuse syndromes.
  • These branches supply the pectineus, the hip joint, and, by rejoining the obturator, the adductor muscles.
  • There should be resistance from the adductor muscle within the shell. Meathead Goldwyn: Winter Mussels: A Super Bowl for the Super Bowl
  • Slide the blade into the oyster along the underside of the top shell, cutting the adductor muscle to release the oyster.
  • But this is by no means all, -- not only is there this external resemblance between the thoracic armour of the crustacean and the bivalve shell, but the two sides of the ostracod and phyllopod thorax are connected together also by an adductor muscle! On the Genesis of Species
  • Gerrard has not played since damaging an adductor muscle in the win at Chelsea on 6 February and, despite returning to training, is not expected to start the second leg tie against the Czech champions at Anfield. Steven Gerrard's absence lets Joe Cole take centre stage at Liverpool
  • Poor training routines can contribute to soft tissue injuries such as those to Achilles tendons, hamstrings and calf and adductor muscles.
  • -- The upper fragment is carried forwards by the action of the psoas and iliacus internus, and at the same time everted and drawn outwards by the external rotator and glutei muscles, causing a marked prominence at the outer side of the thigh and great pain from the laceration of the muscles; the lower fragment is drawn upwards, by the rectus, biceps, semi-membranosus and semitendinous muscles, whilst its upper end is thrown outwards and its lower end inwards by the pectineus and adductor muscles; crepitation, preternatural An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.
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