Crossword clues for oculomotor
oculomotor
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Oculomotor \Oc`u*lo*mo"tor\, a. [Oculo- + motor.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the movement of the eye; -- applied especially to the common motor nerves (or third pair of cranial nerves) which supply many of the muscles of the orbit. -- n. The oculomotor nerve.
Wiktionary
a. (context anatomy English) Of or pertaining to movement of the eyeball
WordNet
n. supplies extrinsic muscles of the eye [syn: oculomotor nerve, nervus oculomotorius, third cranial nerve]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "oculomotor".
And the connection between the dilator muscle and oculomotor nerve was fused, leaving the eye virtually no ability to reduce the amount of incoming light.
It is the smallest of the cranial nerves and extends from the midbrain to a muscle that helps to move the eyeball one of the muscles not innervated by the oculomotor nerve.
The oculomotor nerve consists chiefly of motor fibers that innervate most of the muscles of the eyeball.
In these cases the lesions have consisted of detachment of the retina, optic atrophy, cataract, hemorrhages into the retina, and rupture of the choroid, paralysis of the oculomotor muscles, and paralysis of the optic nerve.
Whereas the olfactory and optic nerves are sensory and the oculomotor and trochlear nerves are motor.
First the cranial nerves: olfactory, optic, oculomotor, trochlear, trigeminal, abducens, facial, auditory, glossopharyngeal, vagus, spinal, and hypoglossal.