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Definition of Oculomotor

1. Noun. Supplies extrinsic muscles of the eye.

Definition of Oculomotor

1. a. 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.

Definition of Oculomotor

1. Adjective. (anatomy) Of or pertaining to movement of the eyeball ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Oculomotor

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Oculomotor

1. 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. The oculomotor nerve. Origin: Oculo- + motor. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Oculomotor

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"The oculomotor Nerve (N. oculomotorius) This is a pure motor nerve. ... In partial oculomotor paralysis, the branches to certain of the eye- muscles may ..."

2. A Manual of Pharmacology and Its Applications to Therapeutics and Toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1922)
"The sphincters are innervated by fibers contained in the oculomotor. ... Stimulation of the oculomotor Mechanism, in any of its parts, ..."

3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1905)
"Most of the nerve cells of the oculomotor nuclei appeared to be normal, but those of the left nucleus were displaced. The left 3d nerve was normal. ..."

4. The Diseases of Children: A Work for the Practising Physician by Meinhard von Pfaundler, Arthur Schlossmann (1908)
"Periodic oculomotor palsy is a term used to describe a disease occurring in children and characterized by paroxysmal, total and partial paralysis of one ..."

5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"Congenital Palsy of the oculomotor Nerve with Continuous Movements of the ... the oculomotor nerve, with constant variations in the diameter of the pupil, ..."

6. Diseases of the nervous system: A Text-book for Students and Practitioners by Hermann Oppenheim (1900)
"This paralysis involves generally the whole oculomotor nerve; in some cases some of the branches were spared. The paralysis may even confine itself to the ..."

7. Anatomy of the brain and spinal cord with special reference to mechanism and by Harris Ellett Santee (1907)
"The nuclei of the oculomotor and trochlear nerves receive fibers from the ... For the purpose of reflex both the oculomotor and trochlear nuclei receive ..."

8. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1903)
"The Origin and Course of the oculomotor Nerve in the Mid-brain. ... oculomotor Nuclei.—Majano has made a careful study of the oculomotor nuclei in the brain ..."

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