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n. - A small motor nerve supplying the lateral rectus muscle of the eye.

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  • For example, the abducens and facial nuclei appear at the level of the caudal pons.
  • The olfactory, optic, oculo-motor, pathetic, ophthalmic division of the trigeminal, and the abducens nerves are all liable to be implicated.
  • She developed acute bilateral abducens neuropathy with post-tetanic facilitation alongside acute laryngopharyngodysesthesia and hypokalemia.
  • From the ventral longitudinal bundle collaterals are given off to the nuclei of the eye muscles, the oculomotor, the trochlear and the abducens.
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