Drawing away or pulling apart; tending to abduct or separate.
From Latin abducens (leading away) + -ent (tending to). This adjective form describes the quality of pulling away.
Medical adjectives like 'abducent' are less common now, but they create elegant precision—'abducent muscle' clearly means a muscle that pulls something away from center.
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