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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

Closely associated with the optic was the small oculomotor, and near the connectives the small second antennal.

Is there anatomical evidence that the ganglia of origin of the oculomotor and trochlear nerves represent many ganglia?

Dohrn alone, as far as I know, as already pointed out, insists upon the multiple character of the oculomotor nerve.

Other cranial nerves, particularly the oculomotor and the hypoglossal, may also be implicated.

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