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Definitions
(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.
Used in a sentence
“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”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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