Cranial nerve that runs to the eye muscles. [ https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=bn%3A0471209627 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abducens_nerve ]
Synonyms: nervus abducens [VI] abducens nerve tree sixth cranial nerve abducens VI nerve lateral rectus nerve nervus abducens abducens nerve [VI] abducent nerve [VI]
Term information
- BIRNLEX:876
- BM:Pons-VIN
- NCIT:C12665
- ZFA:0000310
- GAID:824
- EHDAA2:0000103
- MBA:710
- SCTID:180941005
- UMLS:C0000741 (ncithesaurus:Abducens_Nerve)
- MESH:D000010
- XAO:0003093
- EMAPA:18216
- MA:0001087
- Wikipedia:Abducens_nerve
- VHOG:0000697
- HBA:9325
- FMA:50867
- BAMS:VIn
- AAO:0010471
- neuronames:550 (BIRNLEX:876)
- TAO:0000310
uberon_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core, human_reference_atlas
Somatic motor nerve which bifurcates innervating m. rectus lateralis and m. retractor bulbi (eye muscles).[AAO]
CN-VI
nerve VI
abducents VI nerve
abducent nerve
nervus abducens
abducens nerve/root
cranial nerve VI
We conclude this section by listing some of the many synapomorphies of craniates, including (...) (5) cranial nerves (...) (reference 1); Phylogenetically, the cranial nerves are thought to have evolved from dorsal and ventral nerves of a few anterior spinal nerves that became incorporated into the braincase. Dorsal and ventral nerves fuse in the trunk but not in the head, and they produce two series: dorsal cranial nerves (V, VII, IX, and X) and ventral cranial nerves (III, IV, VI, and XIII) (reference 2).[well established][VHOG]
Homologous abducens nerves are found in all vertebrates except lampreys and hagfishes.[WP] It controls the movement of a single muscle, the lateral rectus muscle of the eye, in humans. In most other mammals it also innervates the musculus retractor bulbi, which can retract the eye for protection
Term relations
- cranial nerve and innervates some extra-ocular muscle and extends_fibers_into some abducens nucleus
- cranial nerve
- ectoderm-derived structure
- develops from some basal plate metencephalon
- innervates some extra-ocular muscle
- in taxon some Gnathostomata
- extends_fibers_into some abducens nucleus