Definitions for oculomotor nerve
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
oculomo′tor nerve`(n.)
either one of the third pair of cranial nerves, which innervate most of the muscles of the eyeball.
Category: Anatomy
Origin of oculomotor nerve:
1880–85
Princeton's WordNet
oculomotor, oculomotor nerve, nervus oculomotorius, third cranial nerve(noun)
supplies extrinsic muscles of the eye
Wiktionary
oculomotor nerve(Noun)
The third of twelve paired cranial nerves, which controls most of the eye's movements and constriction of the pupil and maintains an open eyelid.
U.S. National Library of Medicine
Oculomotor Nerve
The 3d cranial nerve. The oculomotor nerve sends motor fibers to the levator muscles of the eyelid and to the superior rectus, inferior rectus, and inferior oblique muscles of the eye. It also sends parasympathetic efferents (via the ciliary ganglion) to the muscles controlling pupillary constriction and accommodation. The motor fibers originate in the oculomotor nuclei of the midbrain.
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