Back عصب مبعد Arabic Uzaqlaşdırıcı sinir Azerbaijani ཕྱིར་གཡོ་དབང་རྩ། ཕྲེད་གཡོ་དབང་རྩ། Tibetan Živac odvoditelj BS Nervi motor ocular extern Catalan Odtahovací nerv Czech Nervus abducens German Απαγωγό νεύρο Greek Nervio abducens Spanish Eemaldajanärv Estonian
| Abducens nerve | |
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 The path of the abducens nerve | |
 Inferior view of the human brain, with the cranial nerves labelled. | |
| Details | |
| From | Abducens nucleus |
| Innervates | Lateral rectus muscle |
| Identifiers | |
| Latin | nervus abducens |
| MeSH | D000010 |
| NeuroNames | 550 |
| TA98 | A14.2.01.098 |
| TA2 | 6283 |
| FMA | 50867 |
| Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy | |
| Cranial nerves |
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The abducens nerve or abducent nerve, also known as the sixth cranial nerve, cranial nerve VI, or simply CN VI, is a cranial nerve in humans and various other animals that controls the movement of the lateral rectus muscle, one of the extraocular muscles responsible for outward gaze. It is a somatic efferent nerve.