moving the eyeball; specif. designating or of either nerve of the third pair of cranial nerves, arising in the midbrain and supplying four of the six muscles that move each eyeball
Origin:
oculo- + motor
See oculomotor in American Heritage Dictionary 4
adjective
Of or relating to movements of the eyeball: an oculomotor muscle.
Of or relating to the oculomotor nerve.
Origin:
Origin: Latin oculus, eye; see okw- in Indo-European roots