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ADDUCTION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(physiology) moving of a body part toward the central axis of the body
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("adduction" is a kind of...):
motility; motion; move; movement (a change of position that does not entail a change of location)
Domain category:
physiology (the branch of the biological sciences dealing with the functioning of organisms)
Derivation:
adduct (draw a limb towards the body)
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