What's the difference between abducent and adducent?
Abducent
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Adducent
Definition:
(a.) Bringing together or towards a given point; -- a word applied to those muscles of the body which pull one part towards another. Opposed to abducent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Phylogenetic and ontogenetic justifications for this organization are adduced.
(2) Tables of credible occurrence intervals for "nearly perpendicular" (the angle is tipped to the substrate plane by over 74 degrees) and for "nearly parallel" (the angle is tipped to the substrate plane by less than 12 degrees) centrioles in different samplings are adduced.
(3) But after almost three years of rigorous and sometimes brutal interrogation, no evidence has been adduced that he was guilty of any involvement in terrorism.
(4) Such data for main hindlimb nerves of the cat are adduced.
(5) In the present Note it is argued that much of the data which Pizzuto & Caselli adduce is irrelevant to the specific hypotheses they are evaluating and that those data which are relevant fully support parameter-setting and linguistic-theoretic models, contrary to their claims.
(6) The central importance of the subthalamic nucleus in all three conditions is proposed, and supportive evidence for the excitatory nature of subthalamic efferent fibres is adduced.
(7) The block diagram of algorithm of the automated system operation is adduced, search algorithm of characteristic points is described in detail, the fundamental correlations are presented.
(8) Evidence for the existence of such Ca-cages is adduced from the properties of the [Ca(phosphatidate)2] complex.
(9) Estimation of the risk of cancer following exposure to ionizing radiation remains largely empirical, and the models used to adduce risk incorporate few, if any, of the advances in molecular biology of the past decade or so.
(10) Evidence is adduced to suggest that the inhibitory effects on Renshaw cells following stimulation of semicircular canal afferents were mediated directly, i.e.
(11) This stimulation can be adduced with a high degree of probability to the inhibition of organisms which have an antagonistic effect on N-binding bacteria.
(12) The authors adduce motives for the need of periodic fiber gastroscopic control of operated patients, aimed at early prophylaxis of primary cancer of the gastric residue.
(13) Evidence has been adduced to indicate the presence of a single high affinity binding site with a dissociation constant of 1.4 x 10(-9) M. A single subunit has been identified by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in sodium dodecyl sulfate with an estimated molecular weight of 26,000.
(14) More importantly, several examples of oncogene cooperation in vivo are adduced by these experiments.
(15) Subsequently, some examples are adduced to show during which centuries of the Middle Ages a fear of future diseases of the children was wide-spread and during which centuries contacts among men and children in the course of their early years were especially close.
(16) A hypothesis is presented and evidence is adduced to show that high-risk areas of multiple sclerosis are related to the ability of the soils of the locality to obtain and fix molybdenum perferentially to copper.
(17) Partly in response to the Bowraville case, and following changes to the law in England, the NSW parliament in 2006 passed amendments to the Crimes (Appeal and Review) Act allowing for the retrial of an acquitted person where, in serious cases, there is “fresh and compelling” evidence that had not been “adduced” in the proceedings which saw the accused acquitted.
(18) Functional overlapping between non-cholinergic and cholinergic nuclei in the peribrachial region are noted and some correlations adduced.
(19) Reasons are adduced to explain why patients who were deemed suitable for transfer to other care had not been discharged from hospital.
(20) Studying the 16-ene-synthetase reaction in human testicular homogenates, we adduced evidence for the hypothesis that ADL is synthesized from P5 in a single step, not requiring separate intermediates.