innervates innervates in taxon develops from develops from extends_fibers_into Gnathostomata <vertebrates> Homo sapiens extra-ocular muscle abducens nerve https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Abducens_nerve1.png EHDAA2:0000103 Somatic motor nerve which bifurcates innervating m. rectus lateralis and m. retractor bulbi (eye muscles).[AAO] nervus abducens XAO:0003093 abducens nerve [VI] abducens nerve tree SCTID:180941005 BM:Pons-VIN GAID:824 lateral rectus nerve abducent nerve BAMS:VIn abducens nerve/root Cranial nerve that runs to the eye muscles. nervus abducens [VI] 6n ZFA:0000310 sixth cranial nerve BIRNLEX:876 nerve VI AAO:0010471 We conclude this section by listing some of the many synapomorphies of craniates, including (...) (5) cranial nerves (...) (reference 1); Phylogenetically, the cranial nerves are thought to have evolved from dorsal and ventral nerves of a few anterior spinal nerves that became incorporated into the braincase. Dorsal and ventral nerves fuse in the trunk but not in the head, and they produce two series: dorsal cranial nerves (V, VII, IX, and X) and ventral cranial nerves (III, IV, VI, and XIII) (reference 2).[well established][VHOG] UBERON:0001646 CN-VI HBA:9325 Wikipedia:Abducens_nerve nervus abducens NCIT:C12665 MESH:D000010 abducent nerve [VI] neuronames:550 TAO:0000310 FMA:50867 Homologous abducens nerves are found in all vertebrates except lampreys and hagfishes.[WP] It controls the movement of a single muscle, the lateral rectus muscle of the eye, in humans. In most other mammals it also innervates the musculus retractor bulbi, which can retract the eye for protection MBA:710 EMAPA:18216 MA:0001087 abducents VI nerve abducens VI nerve VHOG:0000697 UMLS:C0000741 cranial nerve VI cranial nerve abducens nucleus basal plate metencephalon