Usually means: Movement of limb toward body.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. adduction: Merriam-Webster
  2. adduction: Collins English Dictionary
  3. adduction: Vocabulary.com
  4. adduction: Wordnik
  5. adduction: Wiktionary
  6. adduction: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. adduction: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. adduction: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. adduction: Dictionary.com
  10. Adduction: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Adduction: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. adduction: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. adduction: Rhymezone
  14. Adduction: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. adduction: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. adduction: FreeDictionary.org
  17. adduction: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. adduction: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. adduction: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  20. adduction: Merriam-Webster

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Adduction: Lexicon of Linguistics

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. adduction: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. adduction: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Adduction: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  6. adduction: Medical dictionary
  7. Adduction: Drug Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (adduction)

noun:  The act of adducing or bringing forward.
noun:  (anatomy) The action by which the parts of the body are drawn towards its axis

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