oculomotor
American Heritage Dictionary:
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oc·u·lo·mo·tor
(ŏk'yə-lō-mō'tər) 
adj.
adj.
- Of or relating to movements of the eyeball: an oculomotor muscle.
- Of or relating to the oculomotor nerve.
[Latin oculus, eye + MOTOR.]
American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary:
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oc·u·lo·mo·tor
(ŏk'yə-lō-mō'tər)
adj.
adj.
- Relating to or causing movements of the eyeball.
- Of or relating to the oculomotor nerve.
Saunders Veterinary Dictionary:
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oculomotor
Pertaining to or affecting eye movements.
- o. nerve — the third cranial nerve; it contains motor and parasympathetic fibers. Various branches of the oculomotor nerve provide for muscle sense and movement in most of the muscles of the eye, for constriction of the pupil, and for accommodation of the eye.
- o. nerve paralysis — causes pupillary dilatation, absence of pupillary light reflex, ventrolateral deviation of the eye, defective eye movement and palpebral ptosis.
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