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Definition of Nervus abducens
1. Noun. A small motor nerve supplying the lateral rectus muscle of the eye.
Generic synonyms: Cranial Nerve
Medical Definition of Nervus abducens
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Nervus Abducens
Literary usage of Nervus abducens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Brain and Spinal Cord: A Manual for the Study of the Morphology and Fibre by Emil Villiger (1918)
"nervus abducens. The nucleus of the abducens nerve lies in the floor of the fourth
ventricle and in the colliculus facialis. The emergent fibres of the ..."
2. The Anatomy and Histology of the Human Eye by Abraham Metz (1868)
"and the nervus abducens, are some distance apart after their passage from the
brain, they yet have a common direction in their course from their origin at ..."
3. A Text-book of the practice of medicine by James Magoffin French, Charles Spencer Williamson (1908)
"SIXTH NERVE (nervus abducens). This nerve is subject to the same affections as
the other motor nerves of the eye, especially in connection with syphilis, ..."
4. A Manual of Histology by Salomon Stricker (1872)
"709) that no such mechanisms exi.vt for the basis cruris, and the existence of
the connections between the nucleus of the nervus abducens and the raphe ..."
5. Journal of Morphology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1903)
"nervus abducens. THE nervus abducens (ab) arises from the floor of the medulla
as a single strand, lying, at its origin, antero-mesial to the point of ..."
6. The Anatomy of the Central Nervous Organs in Health and Disease by Heinrich Obersteiner (1890)
"nervus abducens (nervus oculomotorius externus, sixth pair).—The nerve to the
external rectus muscle of the eye is only considered in this place on account ..."
7. Handbook of ophthalmology by C. Schweigger (1878)
"While the nervus abducens and the nervus trochlearis innervate only a single
muscle each, all the other muscles of the eye, together with the levator ..."
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