Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to movements of the eyeball.
- adjective Of or relating to the oculomotor nerve.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Moving the eyeball: applied to the third cranial nerve, which supplies the muscles moving the eyeball, except the superior oblique and external rectus.
- noun The oculomotor nerve. See I.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective anatomy Of or pertaining to
movement of theeyeball
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun supplies extrinsic muscles of the eye
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Instead, the auditory nerve receptor lies quite close to something called the oculomotor nerve nucleus.
Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010
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Instead, the auditory nerve receptor lies quite close to something called the oculomotor nerve nucleus.
Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010
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Instead, the auditory nerve receptor lies quite close to something called the oculomotor nerve nucleus.
Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010
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The superior division of the oculomotor is the highest of these; beneath this lies the nasociliary branch of the ophthalmic; then the inferior division of the oculomotor; and the abducent lowest of all.
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And there are glimpses of Bryan as he struggles with oculomotor nerve palsy and must do daily eye exercises.
2 years after crash, victims expect few answers from HBO film 2011
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Complete "locked-in syndrome," which is sometimes characterized as "living eyes in a dead body" and was the condition described by Jean-Dominique Bauby in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, [1] is identified by tetraplegia (the paralysis of all four limbs), paralytic mutism (an inability to speak), the oculomotor deviation known as lateral gaze palsy, and the inability to breathe unaided.
The Case of Theresa Schiavo Didion, Joan 2005
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Anderson22 observed the following: after degenerative division of the oculomotor nerve, light stimulation was for a long time without effect, regardless of whether the eye had been eserinized or not.
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This assumption would be necessary, because, after oculomotor nerve degeneration, the effector organs, corpus ciliare and iris do not degenerate, and yet the
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Today, when we know that oculomotor stimulation releases AC. Ch., the action of eserine is revealed as being simply to increase the effect of the Ac.Ch. by inhibiting that of the esterase, and Anderson's results become absolutely clear.
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The influence of the oculomotor nerve degeneration must, in that case, only extend to the mysterious transmission system.
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