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Abducent nerve: A small motor nerve that has one task: to supply a muscle called the lateral rectus muscle that moves the eye outward.
Paralysis of the abducent nerve causes inward turning of the eye (internal strabismus) leading to double vision.
The abducent nerve is the sixth cranial nerve. All 12 cranial nerves, the abducent nerve included, emerge from or enter the skull (the cranium), as opposed to the spinal nerves which emerge from the vertebral column.
The word "abducent" comes from the Latin "ab-", away from + "ducere", to draw = to draw away. The abducent (or abducens) operates the lateral rectus muscle that draws the eye toward the side of the head. The abducent nerve is also called the abducens nerve.
The abducens nerve or abducent nerve (the sixth cranial nerve, also called the sixth nerve or simply VI) is a “ somatic. efferent †nerve that controls the movement of a ...
1F. The Abducent Nerve - Human Anatomy ... F IG. 785– Figure showing the mode of innervation of the Recti medialis and lateralis of the eye (after Duval and Laborde).
–noun Anatomy . either one of the sixth pair of cranial nerves composed of motor fibers that innervate the lateral rectus muscle of the eye. Abducent nerve ...
The abducent nerve supplies the Rectus lateralis oculi. 1: Its fibers arise from a small nucleus situated in the upper part of the rhomboid fossa, close to the middle ...
Gray, Henry. 1918. Anatomy of the Human Body. IX. Neurology. 1F. The Abducent Nerve