abducens

Questions about abducens

What does abducens mean?

abducens means "a small motor nerve supplying the lateral rectus muscle of the eye".

How many syllables are in abducens?

abducens has 3 syllables and divides as ab-du-cens under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for abducens?

Close synonyms include abducent, abducent nerve, abducens nerve, nervus abducens, sixth cranial nerve. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is abducens a common word?

abducens is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.