adductor

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ad=duc=tor

CIDE DICTIONARY

adductor, n. [L., fr. adducere.].

 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.  [1913 Webster]
"In the bivalve shells, the muscles which close the values of the shell are called adductor muscles."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

adductor, n. (in full adductor muscle) any muscle that moves one part of the body towards another or towards the middle line of the body.