abducent nerve

abducent nerve  (b-dsnt)

The sixth cranial nerve, one of a pair of small motor nerves supplying the eye muscles that control lateral movement. It originates in the pons of the brain, passes through a large venous space known as the cavernous sinus, and enters the orbit of the eye.

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abducent nerve - a small motor nerve supplying the lateral rectus muscle of the eye abducens, abducens nerve, abducent, nervus abducens, sixth cranial nerve cranial nerve - any of the 12 paired nerves that originate in the brain stem