abductor muscle

Questions about abductor muscle

What does abductor muscle mean?

abductor muscle means "a muscle that draws a body part away from the median line".

What is another word for abductor muscle?

Close synonyms include abductor. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is abductor muscle a common word?

abductor muscle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.