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Adductor vs Groin - What's the difference?

adductor | groin |

As nouns the difference between adductor and groin

is that adductor is a muscle which draws a limb or part of the body toward the middle line of the body, or closes extended parts of the body; -- opposed to abductor; as, the adductor of the eye, which turns the eye toward the nose while groin is the crease or depression of the human body at the junction of the trunk and the thigh, together with the surrounding region.

As a verb groin is

to deliver a blow to the genitals.

adductor

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (anatomy) A muscle which draws a limb or part of the body toward the middle line of the body, or closes extended parts of the body; -- opposed to abductor; as, the adductor of the eye, which turns the eye toward the nose.
  • * Verrill:
    • In the bivalve shells, the muscles which close the values of the shell are called adductor muscles.

    Usage notes

    * The alternative spelling adductores is sometimes used to refere to the plural of the muscles.

    Coordinate terms

    * abductor

    groin

    English

    (wikipedia groin)

    Etymology 1

    From earlier grine, from (etyl) grinde, grynde, from (etyl) ; see ground. Later altered under the influence of loin.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The crease or depression of the human body at the junction of the trunk and the thigh, together with the surrounding region.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 15 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Liverpool 1 - 1 Man Utd , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=The Mexican levelled nine minutes from time after Steven Gerrard, making his first start since undergoing groin surgery in April, put Liverpool ahead with a 68th-minute free-kick.}}
  • The area adjoining this fold or depression.
    • He pulled a muscle in his groin .
  • (architecture) The projecting solid angle formed by the meeting of two vaults
  • (euphemistic) The genitals.
    • He got kicked in the groin and was writhing in pain.
  • (geometry) The surface formed by two such vaults.
    • Coordinate terms
    * inguinal

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To deliver a blow to the genitals.
    • In the scrum he somehow got groined .
    She groined him and ran to the car.
  • (architecture) To build with groins.

    • Etymology 2

    (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To grunt; to growl; to snarl; to murmur.
    • (Chaucer)
  • * Spenser
    • bears that groined continually

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