Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun abducent_nerve
1 sense of abducent nerve
Sense 1
abducent, abducent nerve, abducens, abducens nerve, nervus abducens, sixth cranial nerve -- (a small motor nerve supplying the lateral rectus muscle of the eye)
=> cranial nerve -- (any of the 12 paired nerves that originate in the brain stem)