adduction

Examples

• All

• Hip abduction, adduction, external rotation, and hip flexion with the knee extended increased for both legs.

  Academic text (1999)

• The diagnosis was based on a laryngoscopic examination that demonstrated a partial anterior adduction of the vocal folds on inspiration and a posterior diamond-shaped glottic gap.

  Academic text (2009)

• Also, the hip was in greater adduction at foot contact following training.

  Academic text (1999)

• Vocal fold adduction remained constant for all trials.

  Academic text (2012)

• No horizontal adduction of the humerus occurs before front facing.

  Academic text (1997)

• The forefoot adduction and hindfoot varus arc corrected before starting any correction of the heel cord equinus.

  Academic text (2005)

• The ankle position at foot contact without stimulation was -5 degrees plantar flexion, -2 degrees adduction, and 4 degrees internal rotation, which corresponded to the initial POA in Figure 2 (dotted line).

  Academic text (1992)

• During the exercise, the therapist guided me through an adduction of my arm towards my body.

• In anatomical terms, adduction is the movement that decreases the angle between a limb and the body.

Synonyms

M

medialization

vsadduction

• Specialized

1 9.9

A movement that brings a body part toward the middle of the body

is the physiological term for that movement toward the body's central axis

Antonyms

A

abduction

• Archaic

9 6.8

Movement of a limb away from the middle of the body

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology