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adductor muscle

A Dictionary of Zoology | 1999 | 195 words | Copyright

adductor muscle A muscle that draws a shell or limb of an animal towards the median axis of the body. An adductor muscle closes the shell valves in Bivalvia and the carapace valves in Cirripedia.

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