abducted
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When they are mostly closed, or adducted, air exhaled from the lungs generates sound as it passes through the cords.
From Science Daily • Mar. 7, 2024
The heel is drawn up, the anterior part of the foot is adducted and inverted at the mid-tarsal joint.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander
Three weeks later the hand was glossy and stiff, the fingers extended and adducted, the thumb was held stiffly in the palm with no power of extension.
From Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre by Makins, George Henry
When the jaw was adducted, the coronoid process moved upward and inside the cheek.
From The Adductor Muscles of the Jaw In Some Primitive Reptiles by Fox, Richard C.
The limb usually becomes flexed and adducted, and a swelling forms in front of the joint at the upper part of Scarpa's triangle; the upper femoral epiphysis may be separated and furnish a sequestrum.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander
