title: Adductor muscle
text: # Adductor muscle
  
  A adductor muscle is any muscle that causes adduction. It may refer to:
  
  ## Humans
  
  * Adductor muscles of the hip, the most common reference in humans, but may also refer to
     * Adductor brevis muscle, a muscle in the thigh situated immediately behind the pectineus and adductor longus
     * Adductor hallucis muscle, a muscle responsible for adducting the big toe
     * Adductor longus muscle, a skeletal muscle located in the thigh
     * Adductor magnus on the medial side of the thigh
     * Adductor minimus muscle, a small and flat skeletal muscle in the thigh
     * Adductor pollicis muscle, a muscle in the hand that functions to adduct the thumb
  
  ## Other animals
  
  * Adductor muscles (bivalve), a muscle in the interior of a bivalve mollusk which close the valves
  * The large foot-to-shell muscle in gastropods such as the abalone and limpet
  