noun

• Each of the third pair of cranial nerves, supplying most of the muscles around and within the eyeballs.

  ‘The posterior cerebral may course below, rather than over, the oculomotor nerve.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘In all gnathostomes, all but two of the extrinsic eye muscles are controlled by the oculomotor nerve (Cranial Nerve III).’
  • ‘This ganglion contains preganglionic nerves and postganglionic neurons of the oculomotor nerve.’
  • ‘Occasionaly, slips corresponding to a retractor bulbi muscle are found; these may be supplied by the abducens and oculomotor nerves.’
  • ‘The oculomotor nerve passes between the posterior cerebral and superior cerebellar arteries.’