oculomotor nerve (redirected from CN III)

oculomotor nerve

n.

Either of the third pair of cranial nerves, which originate in the midbrain and control most of the muscles that move the eyeballs.

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oculomotor nerve

n

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Anatomy) the third cranial nerve, which supplies most of the eye muscles

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oculomotor nerve - supplies extrinsic muscles of the eye nervus oculomotorius, oculomotor, third cranial nerve cranial nerve - any of the 12 paired nerves that originate in the brain stem