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Definition: Abducens Nerve |
Abducens NerveNoun1. A small motor nerve supplying the lateral rectus muscle of the eye. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | The 6th cranial nerve. The abducens nerve originates in the abducens nucleus of the pons and sends motor fibers to the lateral rectus muscles of the eye. Damage to the nerve or its nucleus disrupts horizontal eye movement control. (references) |
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Looking for a 6th nerve palsy is a good screening sign in children with suspected meningitis. As the abducens emerges near the bottom of the brain, it is often the first nerve compressed when there is any rise in intracranial pressure.
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Synonyms: Abducens NerveSynonyms: abducens (n), abducent (n), abducent nerve (n), nervus abducens (n), sixth cranial nerve (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Abducens Nerve |
| Specialty definitions using "abducens nerve": Abducens Nerve Injury. (references) |
Expressions using "abducens nerve": Abducens Nerve Diseases ♦ Abducens Nerve Injury. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
abducens nerve | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "abducens nerve"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | abducensay ervenay.(various references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-d-e-e-e-n-n-r-s-u-v" | |
-3 letters: endurances, unscreened. | |
-4 letters: endurance, evanesced, scunnered, severance. | |
-5 letters: abducens, ascender, bannered, beavered, becursed, bedunces, berceuse, bereaved, bereaves, bescreen, careened, caverned, censured, cravened, cudbears, decrease, decurves, durances, ensnared, evacuees, evanesce, reascend, revenued, revenues, screened, secerned, serenade, subvened, unbeared, unbraced, unbraces, undersea, unearned, unerased, unevener, unnerved, unnerves, unreeved, unreeves, unseared, unserved, unversed, vendaces, vendeuse, verbenas, verecund. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 62 64 75 63 65 6E 73 4E 65 72 76 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100010 01100100 01110101 01100011 01100101 01101110 01110011 00100000 01001110 01100101 01110010 01110110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A b d u c e n s   N e r v e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0062 0064 0075 0063 0065 006E 0073 004E 0065 0072 0076 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)356870876971808524871848871 |
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