Meanings
nounabducens (plural abducentes)
plural abducentes
- abbreviationellipsisanatomyEllipsis of abducens nerve.First known use early 19th c.
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:[…]
1895, Frederic Shepard Dennis, editor, System of Surgery, volume 2, page 672
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna small motor nerve supplying the lateral rectus muscle of the eye
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