| 单词 | adductor muscle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasadductor muscle Any muscle that draws a part of the body towards the median plane or midline, or that brings two parts (such as the valves of a bivalve mollusc shell) together. Frequently attributive, esp. in adductor muscle. Contrasted with abductor n. 1.Also with distinguishing scientific Latin word, typically specifying the part moved by the muscle, as adductor pollicis, adductor of the great toe, adductor femoris, adductor of the femur, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > muscle > types of muscles > [noun] sphincter1578 raiser1588 in-muscle?1609 oblique1612 abducens1615 abductor1615 adductor1615 antagonist1615 bender1615 depressor1615 extender1615 flexor1615 levator1615 quadratus1615 rectus1615 retractor1615 sphincter-muscle1615 accelerator1638 bicepsa1641 elevator1646 adducent1649 lifter1649 rotator1657 flector1666 contractor1682 dilater1683 orbicularis palpebrarum1694 transverse muscle1696 tensor muscle1704 biventer1706 extensor1713 attollent1728 constrictor1741 dilator1741 risibles1785 orbicularis oculi1797 obliquus1799 erector1828 extensor-muscle1830 compressor1836 trans-muscle1836 antagonizer1844 motor1846 evertor1848 inflector1851 protractor1853 prime mover1860 orbicular1872 transversalis1872 invertor1875 skeletal muscle1877 dilatator1878 occlusor muscle1878 sphincter1879 pilomotor1892 agonist1896 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 741 As for example, euery flexor or bending muscle hath a tensor or extending muscle; euery adductor, that is, which moueth toward hath an abductor which moueth froward. 1694 W. Cowper Μυοτομια Reformata xxxv. 214 The great Toe is moved by its Proper Muscles, which we reckon to be six in number, namely, Extensor Pollicis Longus, and Extensor Brevis,..Adductor and Abductor Pollicis. 1747 J. Parsons Crounian Lect. 17 in Philos. Trans. 1746 (Royal Soc.) 44 The Adductor arises tendinous and fleshy from the edge of the Hole of the optic Nerve. 1793 J. Bell Anat. Bones, Muscles, & Joints ii. iii. 278 Besides these muscles which bend and extend the fingers, there are other smaller ones..for the lateral motions of the thumb and little finger, and which are therefore named, Adductors, Abductors, and Flexors, of the little finger and thumb. 1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 296/1 There are [in birds] most commonly three adductors of the thigh. 1859 W. B. Carpenter Animal Physiol. (rev. ed.) i. 41 The animal forcibly draws them together by its adductor muscle. 1932 A. G. Gould & J. A. Dye Exercise & Physiol. i. 8 Muscles which move a part or member away from the line of the vertical axis of the body are known as abductors; those which move a part toward this axis are known as adductors. 1958 J. E. Morton Molluscs i. 23 The shell can be tightly closed by the adductor muscles. 1986 A. S. Romer & T. S. Parsons Vertebr. Body (ed. 6) ix. 297 In reptiles, an adductor femoris, arising from the puboischium, runs far down the underside of the femur; most of the variable femoral adductors of mammals are homologous. 2001 Times 2 Jan. ii. 4/3 The adductor muscles of the inner thigh that grip the horse work the hardest. < as lemmas |
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