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But they seemed, somehow, to have little more fervor than such anti-U.S. demonstrations as those generated by the executions of convicted Atom Spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and Abductor Caryl Chessman.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bilateral Abductor Paralysis.—Both recurrent nerves may be interfered with by such conditions as enlargement of the thyreoid, tumour of the œsophagus, or intra-thoracic tumour, or by injury in the course of operations for goitre.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander

The Eyes have each six Muscles, viz. four Recti and two Obliqui; the Recti or streight Muscles are the Elevator, the Depressor, the Adductor, and the Abductor.

From The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. by Le Clerc, Charles Gabriel

Abductor mandibulae: the muscle that opens the mandibles.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.

The two others are the Adductor of the second Toe to the great Toe, and the Abductor of the little Toe, call'd Hypothenar.

From The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. by Le Clerc, Charles Gabriel