List of adductors of the human body
Adduction is an anatomical term of motion referring to a movement which brings a part of the anatomy closer to the middle sagittal plane of the body.
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Upper limb
Arm and shoulder
- of arm at shoulder (lowering arm)[1]
- Subscapularis
- Teres major
- Pectoralis major
- Infraspinatus
- Triceps brachii (long head)
- Latissimus dorsi
- Coracobrachialis
Lower limb
Other
- eyeball
- jaw (muscles of mastication, the closing of the jaw is adduction):
- masseter
- pterygoid muscles (lateral and medial)
- temporalis
- vocal folds
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