great adductor muscle
- noun
- Specialized
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aductor mayor
- The great adductor muscle plays an important role in stabilizing the pelvis during walking.
Examples
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Injuries to the great adductor muscle are common among athletes who perform sudden lateral movements.
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She injured her great adductor muscle during the game.
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In certain shellfish, the great adductor muscle is what holds the shells tightly closed.
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The great adductor muscle helps stabilize the hip joint.
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Injuries to the great adductor muscle are common among athletes who perform sudden lateral movements.
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The great adductor muscle plays an important role in stabilizing the pelvis during walking.
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She injured her great adductor muscle during the game.
Synonyms
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7.9
A muscle that pulls a leg or arm toward the middle of the body
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5.4
A muscle that pulls a body part toward the middle of the body
A large inner thigh muscle that pulls the thigh toward the other leg and moves it backward at the hip
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a compositional anatomical label: 'great' = large, 'adductor' = a muscle that moves a limb toward the midline, and 'muscle' = body tissue for movement, so the combined meaning (a large adductor muscle) is directly derivable from the parts. This follows standard noun modification and cross‑linguistically common anatomical naming, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words would understand it.
Etymology
Great adductor muscle shows what the name does: adductor comes from old words meaning 'to bring toward', so this large muscle pulls the leg toward the body's middle, and great simply means 'big'.