abducens
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /abˈd͡ʒuː.sənz/, /abˈd͡ʒuː.sn̩z/, /abˈdjuː.sənz/, /abˈdjuː.sn̩z/
- (General American) IPA(key): /æbˈd(j)uˌsɛnz/
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Noun
abducens (plural abducentes)
- (anatomy) Ellipsis of abducens nerve. [Early 19th century.][1]
- 1895, Frederic Shepard Dennis, editor, System of Surgery, 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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Derived terms
- abducens labiorum
- abducens muscle
- abducens oculi
References
- “abducens”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “abducens”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
- 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
Pronunciation
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Noun
abducens m (plural abducens)
- abducens
Latin
Etymology
Present active participle of abdūcō (“to lead away, carry off, take or bring away”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /abˈduː.kens/, [äbˈd̪uːkẽːs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /abˈdu.t͡ʃens/, [äbˈd̪uːt͡ʃens]
Participle
abdūcēns (genitive abdūcentis); third-declension one-termination participle
- present active participle of abdūcō
Inflection
Third-declension participle.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
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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.