[へいかくきん, heikakukin] (n) adductor muscle (of a bivalve) [Add to Longdo]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Adductor \Ad*duc"tor\, n. [L., fr. adducere.] (Anat.)
A muscle which draws a limb or part of the body toward the
middle line of the body, or closes extended parts of the
body; -- opposed to {abductor}; as, the adductor of the eye,
which turns the eye toward the nose.
[1913 Webster]
In the bivalve shells, the muscles which close the
values of the shell are called adductor muscles.
--Verrill.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
adductor
n 1: a muscle that draws a body part toward the median line
[syn: {adductor}, {adductor muscle}]
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