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Adduction

noun

(physiology) moving of a body part toward the central axis of the body.

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"Adduction" Quotes from Famous Books

... bone. If the jaw were at almost any angle but maximum depression, the greatest component of force would be mediad, pulling the rami together and not upward. The mediad component would increase as the jaw approached full adduction. Neither is there anatomical evidence for an adductor arising from the quadrate wing of the pterygoid. The bone is smooth, hard, and without any marks that might ...

— The Adductor Muscles of the Jaw In Some Primitive Reptiles • Richard C. Fox

... fact, that in all these corpses the thumb exhibited a singular attitude—that of adduction or attraction inward, which I had never noted either ...

— Delsarte System of Oratory • Various

... sort, which he accepts as authoritative, and which he regards as having a bearing upon the particular instance in question. That individual decisions should be capable of some sort of justification by the adduction of a reason or reasons is generally admitted. No sane man would maintain the general proposition that the consequences of acts should be wholly disregarded in determining whether they are ...

— A Handbook of Ethical Theory • George Stuart Fullerton