adductor

or a. [Lat.] (s.) That which leads or draws to; (a.) leading or drawing to. Anat.: A term applied to a muscle whose function it is to bring one part of the physical frame towards or in contact with another one, which, as a rule, is larger or more important than the first. "The muscular impre ions [in bivalve shells) are those of the adductors , the foot and by us, the siphons and the mantle."-Woodward: Mollusca, p. 401. "The adductor impre ions are usually simple, although the muscles themselves may be composed of two elements."- Ibid . , pp. 400-L.