abducentes
n. C2 Proficiency ab·du·centes
n. the muscles in your eye that move it toward the middle of your face. They work with other muscles to help you look straight ahead.
n. the muscles responsible for the lateral movement of the eye toward the midline of the face. Often used in medical or anatomical contexts to describe specific cranial nerves or eye muscles.
The abducentes help you look directly at a person.
Damage to the abducentes can cause the eye to drift inward, making it difficult to focus on objects to the side.
The abducentes are innervated by the sixth cranial nerve, which coordinates the lateral movement of the eye with the medial rectus muscles of the opposite eye.