ABDUCENS MUSCLE

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 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

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)