Word.ws English Dictionary

abductor oculi

abductor oculi noun: a muscle that draws the eye outwards.

Noun

abductor oculi

  1. (obsolete) A muscle that draws the eye outwards
    • date? The Royal English dictionary: or, A treasury of the English language
      The Abductor oculi, or abductor of the eyes is one of the four muscles, which rises from the bottom of the orbit, and draws the eye towards the outward canthus...

Origin of abductor oculi

From Latin.

Questions about abductor oculi

What does abductor oculi mean?
Abductor oculi means a muscle that draws the eye outwards.
What part of speech is abductor oculi?
Abductor oculi is a noun.

Words near abductor oculi in the dictionary

  1. abductions
  2. abductive
  3. abductive reasoning
  4. abductively
  5. abductor
  6. abductor oculi
  7. abductor pollicis longus
  8. abductores
  9. abductors
  10. abductory
  11. abducts

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: abductor oculi (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “abductor oculi.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/abductor_oculi. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.