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oculomotor

American  
[ok-yuh-loh-moh-ter] / ˌɒk jə loʊˈmoʊ tər /

adjective

  1. moving or tending to move the eyeball.

    an oculomotor muscle.


oculomotor British  
/ ˌɒkjʊləʊˈməʊtə /

adjective

  1. relating to or causing eye movements

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of oculomotor

First recorded in 1880–85; oculo- + motor

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If light levels are too high, the parasympathetic system sends a signal out from the Eddinger–Westphal nucleus through the oculomotor nerve.

From Textbooks Jun. 19, 2013

The information is sent to the abducens nuclei and oculomotor nuclei on either side to coordinate the lateral and medial rectus muscles.

From Textbooks Jun. 19, 2013

All of the other muscles are innervated by the oculomotor nerve, as is the levator palpebrae superioris.

From Textbooks Jun. 19, 2013

To keep the stimulus in focus, the eye also needs to change the shape of the lens, which is controlled through the parasympathetic fibers of the oculomotor nerve.

From Textbooks Jun. 19, 2013

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?”

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

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