oculomotor nerve

The oculomotor nerve is the 3rd of 12 paired cranial nerves.

The most common finding is oculomotor nerve dysfunction leading to ophthalmoplegia.

The oculomotor nerve is responsible for several parasympathetic functions related to the eye.

These cases may be due to brain mass lesions which cause oculomotor nerve palsy.

The nuclei of the abducens and oculomotor nerves are connected.

Another symptom that appears is the loss of eye movement due to damage to the oculomotor nerve fibers.

As the name suggests, the oculomotor nerve supplies the majority of the muscles controlling eye movements.

Parasympathetic fibers initially run in the inferior division of the oculomotor nerve.

The oculomotor nerve is predominantly affected as it lies closest to the pituitary.

A complete Oculomotor nerve palsy will result in a characteristic down and out position in the affected eye.

The oculomotor nerve is derived from the basal plate of the embryonic midbrain.

There are two nuclei for the oculomotor nerve:

Since the oculomotor nerve controls most of the eye muscles, it may be easier to detect damage to it.

A brain catastrophe, or a rapidly increasing brain mass, can cause compression of the oculomotor nerve.

The ciliary body receives parasympathetic innervation from the oculomotor nerve.

He described the optic nerve and the oculomotor nerve for sight and eye movement.

A more rare sign of Kernohan's notch is ipsilateral oculomotor nerve palsy.

Following the loss, Soya was sidelined with a cervical hernia and an oculomotor nerve palsy.

Incyclotorsion may also be used to describe one part of the condition of the eye when a patient has an oculomotor nerve palsy.

The inferior branch of the oculomotor nerve or the inferior division, the larger, divides into three branches.

This is due to the fact that Horner's syndrome and Oculomotor nerve lesions both cause ptosis.

Diabetetic neuropathy of the oculomotor nerve in a majority of cases does not effect the pupil .

Oculomotor nerve palsy If the aneurysm is in cavernous sinus, the symptoms are:

The oculomotor nerve also controls the constriction of the pupils and thickening of the lens of the eye.

In half of these cases, the oculomotor nerve (the third cranial nerve), which controls a number of eye muscles, is affected.