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oculomotor nerve
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oculomotor nerve [¦äk·yə·lō′mōd·ər ′nərv]
(neuroscience)
The third cranial nerve; a paired somatic motor nerve arising in the floor of the midbrain, which innervates all extrinsic eye muscles except the lateral rectus and superior oblique, and furnishes autonomic fibers to the ciliary and pupillary sphincter muscles within the eye.


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Occulomotor problems were evident in 70 percent of patients and included convergence dysfunction (46%), pursuit and/or saccadic dysfunction (25%), accommodation dysfunction (21%), strabismus (11%), and fixation dysfunction or nystagmus (5%).
This linking of neuronal information makes it possible to divide one of the cortex to striatum to palladium to thalamus to cortex loop, into motor functions feedback circuit and other loops for occulomotor and orbitofrontal functions (Parent et al.
 
 
 
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