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noun
One who abducts; a kidnapper.
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The Obama administration is considering changing a US policy prohibiting families of hostages held overseas from making ransom payments to abductors, according to a television report on Sunday.
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There was a slight limp due to abductor and thigh muscles wasting.
The main postoperative complication was a limp due to abductor action and thigh muscle atrophy because of delayed weight-bearing and missed active range of motion exercises.
The resultant deformity coxa brevis contributes to abductor weakness, Trendelenburg gait and secondary acetabular dysplasia while producing limb length inequality and a cam-type femoro-acetabular impingement.
However, normal motor conduction studies in CTS may be attributed to a lower sensitivity of the conventional wrist to abductor pollicis brevis (APB) motor study method to detect abnormalities, rather than sparing of the motor fibers, especially in mild CTS patients (Chang et al. 2002, 2006, 2009; Ginanneschi et al. 2006).
[9] reported five dislocations in 40 revision hip arthroplasties using the Wagner stem and suggested two main reasons for these dislocations: lack of active soft tissue tension related to abductor muscle atrophy, and low offset of the prosthesis, which results in impingement of the trochanteric region into the pelvis.
In future studies it is important to measure lateral trunk motion in relation to abductor muscle strength.
Patient age at the time of the operation and the postoperative changes in the volume of the gluteus medius muscle are related to abductor muscle strength restoration in pelvic support osteotomy of the congenital hip dislocation [ 11].
The practical case to be made to the abductors is this: Nobody is going to listen to their demands, much less take them seriously, as long as they hold Mr. Pearl hostage.
Berlin is reported to have paid a ransom to the abductors, but the government has refused to confirm or deny that.
Italian investigators put names to the abductors by matching their calls to the phone contracts they had signed.
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