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Definition of Abducens muscle
1. Noun. The ocular muscle whose contraction turns the eyeball outward.
Generic synonyms: Eye Muscle, Ocular Muscle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abducens Muscle
Literary usage of Abducens muscle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diseases of the Nervous System by Julius Lincoln Salinger (1910)
"The abducens muscle should bring the border of the iris to the external angle of
the eye. But if the bilateral movement of the abducens should appear to be ..."
2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1899)
"The convergent strabismus increased, although the power of the abducens muscle
did not diminish. In June, 1896, the condition had become stationary for so ..."
3. The London Medical Gazette (1841)
"... as if by the equal co-operation of the outer fibres of the superior rectus,
and the upper fibres of the external, or abducens, muscle. ..."
4. Lectures on the nervous system and its diseases by Marshall Hall (1836)
"... er the abducens nerve, to the abducens muscle of the eye. All this is wonderful,.
and, I believe* hitherto quite. unknown to physiologists. ..."
5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1886)
"No conjugate deviation has ever been noted, nor is there any trace of it now;
the right abducens muscle is more decidedly paretic in monocular as well as ..."
6. Eclectic Journal of Medicine by John Bell (1837)
"... of the seventh pair, or facial, reconveyed it from the medulla oblongata to
the orbicularis, or the abducens nerve, to the abducens muscle to the eye. ..."
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