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Definition of adduct

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Adduct (v. t.) To draw towards a common center or a middle line.

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Adduction :: Adduction (n.) The act of adducing or bringing forward.

Adduction :: Adduction (n.) The action by which the parts of the body are drawn towards its axis]; -- opposed to abduction.

Scallop :: Scallop (n.) Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve mollusks of the genus Pecten and allied genera of the family Pectinidae. The shell is usually radially ribbed, and the edge is therefore often undulated in a characteristic manner. The large adductor muscle of some the species is much used as food. One species (Vola Jacobaeus) occurs on the coast of Palestine, and its shell was formerly worn by pilgrims as a mark that they had been to the Holy Land. Called also fan shell. See Pecten, 2..

Heteromyaria :: Heteromyaria (n. pl.) A division of bivalve shells, including the marine mussels, in which the two adductor muscles are very unequal. See Dreissena, and Illust. under Byssus..

Unimuscular :: Unimuscular (a.) Having only one adductor muscle, and one muscular impression on each valve, as the oyster; monomyarian..

Adductor :: Adductor (n.) 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..

Adduct :: Adduct (v. t.) To draw towards a common center or a middle line.

Dimyaria :: Dimyaria (n. pl.) An order of lamellibranchiate mollusks having an anterior and posterior adductor muscle, as the common clam. See Bivalve..

Eye :: Eye (n.) The scar to which the adductor muscle is attached in oysters and other bivalve shells; also, the adductor muscle itself, esp. when used as food, as in the scallop..

Adductive :: Adductive (a.) Adducing, or bringing towards or to something..

Bimuscular :: Bimuscular (a.) Having two adductor muscles, as a bivalve mollusk..

Argumentative :: Argumentative (a.) Adductive as proof; indicative; as, the adaptation of things to their uses is argumentative of infinite wisdom in the Creator..