noun.
Either of the sixth pair of cranial nerves that convey motor impulses to the rectus muscle on the lateral side of each eye.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
In anatomy, one of the sixth pair of cranial nerves: so called because it is the motor nerve of the rectus externus (external straight) muscle of the eye, which turns the eyeball outward.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun.
a small motor nerve supplying the lateral rectus muscle of the eye.
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noun.
a small motor nerve supplying the lateral rectus muscle of the eye
Word Usage
"From the ventral longitudinal bundle collaterals are given off to the nuclei of the eye muscles, the oculomotor, the trochlear and the abducens."