sixth cranial nerve

Questions about sixth cranial nerve

What is another word for sixth cranial nerve?

It depends which sixth cranial nerve you mean. In the sense “a small motor nerve supplying the lateral rectus muscle of the eye”, the synonyms are abducent, abducent nerve, abducens, abducens nerve, nervus abducens. Across all 1 sense there are 5 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of sixth cranial nerve?

WordNet records no antonym for sixth cranial nerve. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for sixth cranial nerve come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

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• Full entry for sixth cranial nerveAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for sixth cranial nerveWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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