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Definition of Abducens nerve
1. Noun. A small motor nerve supplying the lateral rectus muscle of the eye.
Generic synonyms: Cranial Nerve
Definition of Abducens nerve
1. Noun. (context: anatomy) A nerve that controls the lateral rectus muscle, in the eye. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Abducens nerve
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Abducens Nerve
Literary usage of Abducens nerve
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"The abducens nerve (N. abducens) This purely motor nerve innervates only one
muscle (M. rectus lat- eralis), a muscle that moves the eyeball directly ..."
2. Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1897)
"... abducens nerve ..."
3. The Anatomy of the Frog by Alexander Ecker, George Haslam (1889)
"From its superficial origin, the fibres of the abducens nerve may be traced
vertically upwards to a small, rounded, grey mass ; at this point the mass is ..."
4. The Dublin dissector or Manual of anatomy by Robert Harrison (1854)
"SIXTH or abducens nerve, after traversing the cavernous sinus (where it is joined
by branches from the sympathetic nerve) on the outer side of the carotid ..."
5. The Anatomy of the Nervous System by Stephen Walter Ranson (1920)
"The nerve then turns sharply lateralward over the dorsal surface of the nucleus
of the abducens nerve, and helps to form the elevation in the rhomboid fossa ..."
6. The Anatomy of the Central Nervous Organs in Health and Disease by Heinrich Obersteiner (1890)
"The separate bundles of the abducens nerve traced ... passing beneath the ascending
cms of the facial nerve, enters the abducens nerve of the opposite ..."
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