abducens nerve

cranial nerve controlling the movement of the lateral rectus muscle

Class type of: cranial nervi, particular anatomical entity Q318773

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Facts

6 properties

Instance of: class of anatomical entity
Subclass of: cranial nervi, particular anatomical entity^[2]^[3]
Alternative name: nerf moteur oculaire externe^[8]
Described by source: Gray's Anatomy (20th edition), New Encyclopedic Dictionary^[4]^[5]
Innervates: lateral rectus muscle^[7]
NCI Thesaurus ID: C12665^[6]

🏷️ Also known as

en nervus abducens en abducens nerve en cranial nerve VI en sixth cranial nerve en abducent nerve en CN VI en sixth nerve ar العصب المبعِّد ar العصب المبعد ar العصب القحفي السادس ar عصب مبعد cs odtahovací nerv cs odtahující nerv cs nervus abducens cs VI. hlavový nerv de N. abducens el Απαγωγό νεύρο es Par VI es Par sexto es Par craneal VI

🔖 Identifiers · 25

OpenAlex ID: C2780268429
BNCF Thesaurus ID: 79965
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID: science/abducens-nerve
Foundational Model of Anatomy ID: 50867
Freebase ID: /m/01fj6b
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017): 2697239
Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID: otvodiashchii-nerv-245eb9
ICD-11 ID (Foundation): 1949067993
ICD-11 ID (MMS): XA4GX3
JSTOR topic ID (archived): abducens-nerve-diseases
KBpedia ID: AbducensNerve
MeSH descriptor ID: D000010

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MeSH tree code: A08.800.800.120.030
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued): 2.9B (2.8B–2.9B, n=3)
NeuroNames ID (plain mode): 550
TA2 ID: 6283
TA98 Latin term: nervus abducens
Terminologia Anatomica 98 ID: A14.2.01.098
Topic's main category: Category:Abducens nerve
UBERON ID: 0001646
UMLS CUI: C0000741
WikiSkripta article ID: 15912
Wolfram Language entity code: Entity["AnatomicalStructure", "AbducensNerve"]
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID: 05486760-n
Xenopus Anatomical Ontology ID: XAO_0003093

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🔗 Connections

Innervates 1

lateral rectus muscle

Subclass of 1

cranial nervi

← Anatomical location 1

abducens nerve palsy

← Innervated by 1

lateral rectus muscle

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Summary

abducens nerve is a class of anatomical entity^[1].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

[2] ↑ abducens nerve — subclass of (P279): cranial nervi. Foundational Model of Anatomy. Retrieved 2019-08-01. wikidata.org.
[3] ↑ abducens nerve — subclass of (P279): particular anatomical entity. wikidata.org.
[4] ↑ abducens nerve — described by source (P1343): Gray's Anatomy (20th edition). bartleby.com. Retrieved 2015-05-05. bartleby.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[5] ↑ abducens nerve — described by source (P1343): New Encyclopedic Dictionary. wikidata.org.
[6] ↑ abducens nerve — NCI Thesaurus ID (P1748): C12665. wikidata.org.
[7] ↑ abducens nerve — innervates (P3190): lateral rectus muscle. wikidata.org.
[8] ↑ abducens nerve — alternative name (P4970): nerf moteur oculaire externe. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

[1] ↑ abducens nerve is an instance of class of anatomical entity (Q112826905) [P31, primary]. Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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