ppl. a. Phys. [f. prec. + -ED.] Drawn towards the median line.

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1836–9.  Todd, Cycl. Anat. & Phys., II. 790/2. The limb … became so strongly adducted as to cross the median line.

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1872.  Huxley, Physiol., VII. 174. A limb … is adducted, when it is brought to the middle line.

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