English▸ noun
1 a person who takes someone away by force or deception:
she endured a two-hour ordeal at the hands of her abductors.
2 Anatomy (also abductor muscle) a muscle whose contraction moves a limb or part away from the midline of the body, or from another part. Compare with adductor
▪ any of a number of specific muscles in the hand, forearm, or foot:
[followed by Latin genitive] abductor pollicis.