See Also: Abducent nerve(health)
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communicating branches of auriculotemporal nerve to facial nerve(medicine)
communicating branch of facial nerve with glossopharyngeal nerve(medicine)
communicating branch of median nerve with ulnar nerve(medicine)
communicating branches of lingual nerve to hypoglossal nerve(medicine)
communicating branch of lacrimal nerve with zygomatic nerve(medicine)
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Abducent nerve (health)


A small motor nerve that has one task: to supply a muscle called the lateral rectus muscle that moves the eye outward. Paralysis of the abducent nerve causes inward turning of the eye (internal strabismus) leading to double vision. The abducent nerve is the sixth cranial nerve. All 12 cranial nerves, the abducent nerve included, emerge from or enter the skull (the cranium), as opposed to the spinal nerves which emerge from the vertebral column.