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ABDUCENS MUSCLE

Dictionary entry overview: What does abducens muscle mean?

• ABDUCENS MUSCLE (noun)
The noun ABDUCENS MUSCLE has 1 sense:

1. the ocular muscle whose contraction turns the eyeball outward

Familiarity information: ABDUCENS MUSCLE used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• ABDUCENS MUSCLE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The ocular muscle whose contraction turns the eyeball outward

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

abducens muscle; lateral rectus; lateral rectus muscle; rectus lateralis

Hypernyms ("abducens muscle" is a kind of...):

eye muscle; ocular muscle (one of the small muscles of the eye that serve to rotate the eyeball)

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