abducent

Adjective
  1. 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 organisms
    synonym: abducting
Noun
  1. 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
    synonym: abducens, abducens nerve, abducent nerve, nervus abducens, sixth cranial nerve

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