abducent nerve

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   a small motor nerve supplying the lateral rectus muscle of the eye

   Synonymsabducentabducensabducens nervenervus abducenssixth cranial nerve

   Broadercranial nerve

Questions about abducent nerve

What does abducent nerve mean?

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

What is another word for abducent nerve?

Close synonyms include abducent, abducens, 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 abducent nerve a common word?

abducent nerve 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.