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Adduction   Listen
noun
Adduction  n.  
1.
The act of adducing or bringing forward. "An adduction of facts gathered from various quarters."
2.
(Physiol.) The action by which the parts of the body are drawn towards its axis); opposed to abduction.





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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


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