abducens
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Shortening of abducens nerve, in turn from Latin nervus abdūcēns.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
abducens (plural abducentes)
- (anatomy) The abducens nerve: the nerve in humans and most animals that governs the motion of the lateral rectus muscle of the eye. [Early 19th century.][1]
- Synonym: sixth nerve
- 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
See also[edit]
Abducens nerve on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References[edit]
- ^ “abducens” in Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief; William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2002, →ISBN, page 3.
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Present active participle of abdūcō (“take away”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /abˈduː.kens/, [abˈd̪uː.kẽːs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /abˈdu.t͡ʃens/, [abˈd̪uː.t͡ʃɛns]
Participle[edit]
abdūcēns (genitive abdūcentis); third-declension one-termination participle
- taking away, leading away or aside; removing
- withdrawing
- robbing, ravishing
- seducing, charming
- reducing, degrading, lowering
Declension[edit]
Third-declension participle.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | abdūcēns | abdūcentēs | abdūcentia | ||
Genitive | abdūcentis | abdūcentium | |||
Dative | abdūcentī | abdūcentibus | |||
Accusative | abdūcentem | abdūcēns | abdūcentēs abdūcentīs |
abdūcentia | |
Ablative | abdūcente abdūcentī1 |
abdūcentibus | |||
Vocative | abdūcēns | abdūcentēs | abdūcentia |
1When used purely as an adjective.
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