abducent
Adjective
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Especially of muscles;
Drawing away from the midline of the body or from an adjacent part (synset 300002956)domain category: physiology - the branch of the biological sciences dealing with the functioning of organismssynonym: abducting
Noun
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A small motor nerve supplying the lateral rectus muscle of the eye (synset 105486760)
hypernym: cranial nerve - any of the 12 paired nerves that originate in the brain stem
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