abducens

English

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /abˈd͡ʒuː.sənz/, /abˈd͡ʒuː.sn̩z/, /abˈdjuː.sənz/, /abˈdjuː.sn̩z/
(General American) IPA^(key): /æbˈd(j)uˌsɛnz/
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abducens (plural abducentes)

(anatomy) Ellipsis of abducens nerve. [Early 19^th 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: […]

“abducens”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
“abducens”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

^ 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.

abducens m (plural abducens)

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

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

	masc./fem.	neuter	masc./fem.	neuter
	singular		plural
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.