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abduction

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9 lettersPronunciation /əbˈdʌk.ʃn̩/Part of speech nounSorted abcdinotuStarts with AEnds with N0 cluesCommon crossword word
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  1. (physiology) moving of a body part away from the central axis of the body

Word origin

From Latin abductiō(n) (“a robbing; an abduction”), from abdūcō (“to take or lead away”), from ab (“away”) + dūcō (“to lead”). By surface analysis, abduct + -ion or abduce + -tion.

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  • Abduction is performed by asking the patient to raise the arm at the side as high as they can with the examiner stabilizing the scapula by holding it down.
  • The significance of such a step is that it is not morphologically triggered: it is a step of abduction, and what is required here is a meta-level process of reasoning.
  • the abduction of a child

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