abductor
/əbˈdʌktə
/noun
1A person who abducts another person: she endured a two-hour ordeal at the hands of her abductors...
- They even voted to allow child abductors, thieves, and bomb hoaxers to remain as refugees.
- To me, he will always be a dirty thief and a ruthless abductor!
- Authorities are following up on the report and have yet to determine if the abductors are pirates or terrorists.
2 (also abductor muscle) Anatomy A muscle whose contraction moves a limb or part away from the midline of the body, or from another part. Compare with adductor.She is recovering from a torn abductor muscle in her thigh....
- He missed the last couple of matches due to a slight tear in his abductor muscle.
- This exercise engages spinal extensors, hamstrings, abductors and stabilizers.
2.1Any of a number of specific muscles in the hand, forearm, or foot: [followed by Latin genitive]: abductor pollicis...
- The tears are most likely to the thenar muscles (i.e., opponens pollicis, abductor pollicis brevis and possibly the adductor pollicis).
- I had a look around on the internet this evening for some muscle diagrams and it seems I have a painful abductors pollicis longus.
- The abductor hallucis muscle is the largest and most superficial of the intrinsic great toe muscles lying on the medial border of the sole.
Origin
Early 17th century (as a term in anatomy): modern Latin (see abduct).
Rhymes
- condenser
- condescend
- condescending
- condescendingly
- condescension
- condign
- condignly
- condiment
- condition
- conditional
- conditional discharge
- conditionality
- conditionally
- conditional probability
- conditional sale
- condition code
- conditioned reflex
- conditioned response
- conditioner
- condo
- condole
- condolence
- condom
- condominium
- condonation