abducens

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English

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abducens (plural abducentes)

  1. (anatomy) Ellipsis of abducens nerve. [Early 19th century.][1]
    • 1895, Frederic Shepard Dennis, editor, System of Surgery[1], volume 2, page 672:
      Although the abducens runs in a fissure along the so-often fractured petrous bone, a rupture of the nerve-trunk has never been noticed in autopsies save once: []

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References

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  1. ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abducens”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 3.

French

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abducens m (plural abducens)

  1. abducens

Latin

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Etymology

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Present active participle of abdūcō (to lead away, carry off, take or bring away).

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Participle

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abdūcēns (genitive abdūcentis); third-declension one-termination participle

  1. present active participle of abdūcō

Inflection

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Third-declension participle.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masc./Fem. Neuter Masc./Fem. Neuter
Nominative abdūcēns abdūcentēs abdūcentia
Genitive abdūcentis abdūcentium
Dative abdūcentī abdūcentibus
Accusative abdūcentem abdūcēns abdūcentēs
abdūcentīs
abdūcentia
Ablative abdūcente
abdūcentī1
abdūcentibus
Vocative abdūcēns abdūcentēs abdūcentia

1When used purely as an adjective.