OCULOMOTOR NERVE Definition & Meaning

oculomotor nerve

noun

Anatomy.

either one of the third pair of cranial nerves, consisting chiefly of motor fibers that innervate most of the muscles of the eyeball.

oculomotor nerve

noun

the third cranial nerve, which supplies most of the eye muscles

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Origin of oculomotor nerve¹

First recorded in 1880–85

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One side of a card might read, “Show me, sir, the lesions of Horner’s syndrome & oculomotor nerve paralysis. And what the divvil’s an Argyll Robertson pupil?”

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The nerve that controlled the eyelid, called the oculomotor nerve, was the third in this column.

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