oculomotor nerve

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   supplies extrinsic muscles of the eye

   Synonymsoculomotornervus oculomotoriusthird cranial nerve

   Broadercranial nerve

Questions about oculomotor nerve

What does oculomotor nerve mean?

oculomotor nerve means "supplies extrinsic muscles of the eye".

What is another word for oculomotor nerve?

Close synonyms include oculomotor, 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 nerve a common word?

oculomotor nerve 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.