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oculomotor

[ ok-yuh-loh-moh-ter ]

adjective

  1. moving or tending to move the eyeball:

    an oculomotor muscle.



oculomotor

/ 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
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Word History and Origins

Origin of oculomotor1

First recorded in 1880–85; oculo- + motor
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Word History and Origins

Origin of oculomotor1

C19: from oculo- + motor
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Example Sentences

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?”

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

The experience felt as real as life, and my oculomotor system probably opined the same.

I thought you might enjoy taking the tour with me, to see one way that neuroscientists study oculomotor function.

The study, led by University College London and the University of Oxford, is understood to be the first time an oculomotor prosthesis - an implant that controls eye movement - has been used successfully.

From BBC

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