oculomotor

Questions about oculomotor

What does oculomotor mean?

oculomotor means "supplies extrinsic muscles of the eye".

How many syllables are in oculomotor?

oculomotor has 5 syllables: o-cu-lo-mo-tor. The stress falls on "lo".

What is another word for oculomotor?

Close synonyms include oculomotor nerve, nervus oculomotorius, third cranial nerve. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is oculomotor a common word?

oculomotor is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.