Wednesday, April 3, 2013

CN III - oculomotor nerve

Innervates:
 muscles:
- superior, middle, inferior rectus
-  inferior oblique
- levator palpebra superioris

Functions:
 - adduction
- depression
- elevation
- external rotation

Lesions:
- eye deviated downward & laterally
- diagonal diplopia
- dilation of pupil
- loss of accommodation
- ptosis

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