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noun

Abductor n.

One who abducts.

(Anat.) A muscle which serves to draw a part out, or form the median line of the body; as, the abductor oculi, which draws the eye outward.

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Etymology of 'Abductor'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Abductor" Quotes from Famous Books

... questioned Jim so closely in the cabin and took down his replies, he had not a particle of doubt that the boy was telling him a tissue of falsehoods from beginning to end. Toward the close of the examination, however, it began to dawn on the abductor that possibly he had made an error. Be that as it might, he was none the less convinced that he had a bonanza in his hands, and one which could be made to serve him as well ...

— Brave Tom - The Battle That Won • Edward S. Ellis

... consist. There are certain groups of muscles which by their attachment to the cartilages of the larynx and their action on the joints are able to separate the vocal cords or approximate them; these are termed respectively abductor and adductor muscles (figs. 5 and 6). In normal respiration the posterior ring-pyramidal muscles contract synergically with the muscles of inspiration and by separating the vocal cords open wide the glottis, whereby there is a free ...

— The Brain and the Voice in Speech and Song • F. W. Mott

... sad leave-taking as in silence I shook hands with each of the three remaining men. Even poor Nobs appeared dejected as we quit the compound and set out upon the well-marked spoor of the abductor. Not once did I turn my eyes backward toward Fort Dinosaur. I have not looked upon it since—nor in all likelihood shall I ever look upon it again. The trail led northwest until it reached the western ...

— The Land That Time Forgot • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... Abductor (Lat. abduco, to draw from). A muscle which draws a limb from the middle line of the body, or a finger or toe from the middle line of the ...

— A Practical Physiology • Albert F. Blaisdell

... burst forth, jeweling the forest with a million scintillant gems; but today the ape-man, usually alert to the changing wonders of the jungle, saw them not. Only the fact that the spoor of Teeka and her abductor was obliterated found lodgment in ...

— Jungle Tales of Tarzan • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... if it came to a tragic end. His gunmen would undoubtedly be impelled to a certain extent by an idea of authority. For Graham was an injured husband "rescuing" his wife, while he—Alan Holt—was the woman's abductor and paramour, and a fit subject to ...

— The Alaskan • James Oliver Curwood

... included in the following list. Two or more may be combined. 1. Foreign body. 2. Accumulation of secretions or exudate in the lumen. 3. Distension of the tissues by air, inflammatory products, serum, pus, etc. 4. Displacement of relatively normal tissues, as in abductor paralysis, congenital laryngeal stridor, etcetera. ...

— Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy - A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery • Chevalier Jackson

... I asked, "an invitation to me to join in the spoils? Am I to become murderer, or poisoner, or abductor, ...

— The Master Mummer • E. Phillips Oppenheim

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