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Definition of Trochlear nerve

1. Noun. Either of the two cranial nerves on either side that control the superior oblique muscles of the eyes.

Definition of Trochlear nerve

1. Noun. (anatomy) A motor nerve that innervates the superior oblique muscle of the eye. ¹

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Medical Definition of Trochlear nerve

1. The trochlear nerve controls an extraocular muscle. Lesions of this nerve will result in rotation of the eyeball upward and outward (and double vision). Synonym: cranial nerve IV. (27 Sep 1997)

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Literary usage of Trochlear nerve

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)
"Auges. Wiesbaden, 1899- 1900, i, 71-541. iv. N. IV. The trochlear nerve (N. trochlearis) This is a pure motor nerve, supplying only one muscle (M. ..."

2. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, Edward Albert Schäfer, Johnson Symington, Thomas Hastie Bryce (1909)
"... The fourth or trochlear nerve is the smallest of the cerebral nerves, and has the longest course (about 40 mm.) within the cranial cavity. ..."

3. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"The trochlear nerve, the smallest of the cerebral nerves, supplies the Obliquus superior oculi. It arises from a nucleus situated in the floor of the ..."

4. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1886)
"... the dorsal border of the mesal rectus muscle the largest branch separates as the infra-trochlear nerve (Inf. tro.) ; this rests upon the ectal surface ..."

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