adduction
noun
ad·duc·tion ə-ˈdək-shən 
a-
1
: the action of adducting : the state of being adducted
2
: the act or action of adducing
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web This do-it-all band acts as a hip abductor (helping with movement away from the body), assists with hip adduction (movement toward the body), and stabilizes the knee while running. 
Outside Online, 20 Dec. 2016 That way, your main focus can be on the movement that will grow your chest, adduction, rather than the stress your joints face under load. Men's Health, 6 June 2022 One of the main functions of the chest is adduction, or driving your arms to the midline of your torso to squeeze the pecs. Brett Williams, Men's Health, 2 June 2022 The key for all those moves, of course, is chest adduction. Men's Health, 6 June 2022 The training plan involves one workout a week, typically including six exercises on Nautilus One machines: chest press, pulldown, leg press, abdominal flexion, back extension, and either hip adduction or abduction. Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 2 Feb. 2021 The results were surprising; subjects running barefoot showed less hip adduction (inward rotation), hip internal rotation, and pelvic drop (when hips sway from side to side, dropping one side down). Shelby Carpenter, Outside Online, 26 May 2015 In one such study, conducted by researchers at the University of Salford, runners who were trained to increase their step rate by 10 percent exhibited reductions in hip adduction, lateral pelvic tilt, and pain. Matt Fitzgerald, Outside Online, 16 Mar. 2020 Asymmetry in the bone structure also indicated that the limbs were used for adduction, the pull down motion used in the human breast stroke. Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 25 Sep. 2019 See More
Outside Online, 20 Dec. 2016 That way, your main focus can be on the movement that will grow your chest, adduction, rather than the stress your joints face under load. Men's Health, 6 June 2022 One of the main functions of the chest is adduction, or driving your arms to the midline of your torso to squeeze the pecs. Brett Williams, Men's Health, 2 June 2022 The key for all those moves, of course, is chest adduction. Men's Health, 6 June 2022 The training plan involves one workout a week, typically including six exercises on Nautilus One machines: chest press, pulldown, leg press, abdominal flexion, back extension, and either hip adduction or abduction. Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 2 Feb. 2021 The results were surprising; subjects running barefoot showed less hip adduction (inward rotation), hip internal rotation, and pelvic drop (when hips sway from side to side, dropping one side down). Shelby Carpenter, Outside Online, 26 May 2015 In one such study, conducted by researchers at the University of Salford, runners who were trained to increase their step rate by 10 percent exhibited reductions in hip adduction, lateral pelvic tilt, and pain. Matt Fitzgerald, Outside Online, 16 Mar. 2020 Asymmetry in the bone structure also indicated that the limbs were used for adduction, the pull down motion used in the human breast stroke. Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 25 Sep. 2019 See More Word History
Etymology
Middle English adduccioun "act of conveying," borrowed from Medieval Latin adductiōn-, adductiō, going back to Late Latin, "attraction, contraction," from Latin addūcere "to lead or bring (to a place)," + -tiōn-, -tiō, suffix of action nouns — more at adduce
First Known Use
1649, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Medical Definition
adduction
noun
ad·duc·tion ə-ˈdək-shən, a-
: the action of adducting : the state of being adducted