oculomotor
IPA: ˈɔkjuɫʌmˈoʊtɝ
adjective
- (anatomy, relational) Of or pertaining to movement of the eyeball.
- (anatomy, relational) Of or pertaining to the oculomotor nerve.
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Examples of "oculomotor" in Sentences
- Instead, the auditory nerve receptor lies quite close to something called the oculomotor nerve nucleus.
- And there are glimpses of Bryan as he struggles with oculomotor nerve palsy and must do daily eye exercises.
- The influence of the oculomotor nerve degeneration must, in that case, only extend to the mysterious transmission system.
- This assumption would be necessary, because, after oculomotor nerve degeneration, the effector organs, corpus ciliare and iris do not degenerate, and yet the
- Anderson22 observed the following: after degenerative division of the oculomotor nerve, light stimulation was for a long time without effect, regardless of whether the eye had been eserinized or not.
- The superior division of the oculomotor is the highest of these; beneath this lies the nasociliary branch of the ophthalmic; then the inferior division of the oculomotor; and the abducent lowest of all.
- Today, when we know that oculomotor stimulation releases AC. Ch., the action of eserine is revealed as being simply to increase the effect of the Ac.Ch. by inhibiting that of the esterase, and Anderson's results become absolutely clear.
- Complete "locked-in syndrome," which is sometimes characterized as "living eyes in a dead body" and was the condition described by Jean-Dominique Bauby in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, [1] is identified by tetraplegia (the paralysis of all four limbs), paralytic mutism (an inability to speak), the oculomotor deviation known as lateral gaze palsy, and the inability to breathe unaided.
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