- abducent, abducting - especially of muscles; drawing away from the midline of the body or from an adjacent part
Antonyms: adducent, adductive, adducting
- abducent, abducent nerve, abducens, abducens nerve, nervus abducens, sixth cranial nerve - a small motor nerve supplying the lateral rectus muscle of the eye
--1 is a kind of cranial nerve