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adduction


abduction and adduction
Adduction and abduction
From Clinical Anatomy for Medical Students (3rd ed.) by Richard S. Snell (Little, Brown & Co., 1986)
The movement of a body part toward the axis or midline of the body in the coronal plane. In the case of the fingers and toes, the term adduction refers to the drawing together of these structures, i.e., their movement toward the axis of the limb.

Muscles that carry out adduction are called adductors. The opposite movement is called abduction.


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