different between abducens vs abduct

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ab?d??u?.s?nz/, /ab?d??u?.sn?z/, /ab?dju?.s?nz/, /ab?dju?.sn?z/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /æb?d(j)u?s?nz/

Noun

abducens (plural abducentes)

1. (anatomy) Ellipsis of abducens nerve. [Early 19^th century.]

References

• “abducens”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “abducens”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Latin

Etymology

Present active participle of abd?c? (“to lead away, carry off, take or bring away”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ab?du?.kens/, [äb?d?u?k??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ab?du.t??ens/, [?b?d?u?t???ns]

Participle

abd?c?ns (genitive abd?centis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. present active participle of abd?c?

Inflection

Third-declension participle.

¹When used purely as an adjective.

English

Etymology

From Latin abductus, perfect passive participle of abduco (“to lead away”), from ab (“away”) + duco (“to lead”).

• (physiology): Back-formation from abduction.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /æb?d?kt/, /æb?d?kt/
• Rhymes: -?kt

Verb

abduct (third-person singular simple present abducts, present participle abducting, simple past and past participle abducted)

1. (transitive) To take away by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually with violence or deception; to kidnap. [Early 17^th century.]

2. (transitive, anatomy) To draw away, as a limb or other part, from the median axis of the body. [Early 17^th century.]

Synonyms

• carry off
• drag away
• kidnap
• run away with
• seize
• spirit away
• stretch
• take away

Antonyms

• adduct
• reinstate
• restore

Derived terms

• abductee
• abductive

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