English

Alternative forms

• abducent nerve
• abducens nerve

Noun

abducens ‎(plural abducentes)

1. (anatomy) The abducens nerve: the nerve in humans and most animals that governs the motion of the lateral rectus muscle of the eye. [Early 19^th century.]^[1]
   • 1895, System of Surgery, volume 2, page 672:

     Although the abducens runs in a fissure along the so-often fractured petrous bone, a rupture of the nerve-trunk has never been noticed in autopsies save once

Synonyms

• sixth nerve

See also

• Abducens nerve on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

1. ↑ Lesley Brown (editor), The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition (Oxford University Press, 2003 [1933], ISBN 978-0-19-860575-7), page 3

Latin

Etymology

Present active participle of abdūcō ‎(“take away”).

Participle

abducēns m, f, n ‎(genitive abducentis); third declension

1. taking away, leading away or aside; removing
2. withdrawing
3. robbing, ravishing
4. seducing, charming
5. reducing, degrading, lowering

Inflection

Third declension.

¹When used purely as an adjective.