trochlear

Questions about trochlear

What does trochlear mean?

trochlear means "either of the two cranial nerves on either side that control the superior oblique muscles of the eyes".

How many syllables are in trochlear?

trochlear has 3 syllables and divides as troch-le-ar under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for trochlear?

Close synonyms include trochlear nerve, trochlearis, fourth 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 trochlear a common word?

trochlear 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.