abducens

English[edit]

Shortening of abducens nerve, in turn from Latin nervus abdūcēns.

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 19^th 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

^ “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.

Present active participle of abdūcō (“take away”).

abdūcēns (genitive abdūcentis); third-declension one-termination participle

Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter	Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Number	Singular		Plural
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.