abducens
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English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
Shortening of "abducens nerve", in turn from Latin nervus abducens, from abducent, abducens
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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]
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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
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Synonyms[edit]
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 978-0-19-860457-0, page 3.
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Present active participle of abdūcō (“take away”).
Pronunciation[edit]
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Participle[edit]
abducēns m, f, n (genitive abducentis); third declension
- taking away, leading away or aside; removing
- withdrawing
- robbing, ravishing
- seducing, charming
- reducing, degrading, lowering
Inflection[edit]
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| nominative | abducēns | abducentēs | abducentia | ||
| genitive | abducentis | abducentium | |||
| dative | abducentī | abducentibus | |||
| accusative | abducentem | abducēns | abducentēs | abducentia | |
| ablative | abducente, abducentī1 | abducentibus | |||
| vocative | abducēns | abducentēs | abducentia | ||
1When used purely as an adjective.
