abducens nerve

Cranial nerve that runs to the eye muscles. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the abducens nerve is

Cranial nerve that runs to the eye muscles. The atlas records it as a nerve at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the abducens nerve is

It sits in the head, within the nervous system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the abducens nerve connects to

The atlas records 3 typed relationships for it, across 2 kinds of connection. a kind of cranial nerve.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the abducens nerve. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as 6n, abducens VI nerve, abducens nerve [VI], abducens nerve tree, abducent nerve [VI] and lateral rectus nerve, and 9 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001646, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• A kind of: cranial nerve.
• Innervates: extra-ocular muscle and lateral rectus extra-ocular muscle.

Questions

Where is the abducens nerve?

It sits in the head, within the nervous system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the abducens nerve connect to?

A kind of: cranial nerve.

Is the abducens nerve the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.