abducens

ab·du·cens

[ab-doo-senz, -suhnz, -dyoo-]
noun, plural ab·du·cen·tes [ab-doo-sen-teez, -dyoo-] .

Origin:
< Latin, present participle of abdūcere to abduce

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abducens

noun
a small motor nerve supplying the lateral rectus muscle of the eye [syn: abducent
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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