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7 Cards in this Set
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What nerve produces certain extrinsic and intrinsic movements of the eyeball?
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Oculomotor nerve
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Where does the oculomotor nerve orginate and pass through?
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mesencephalon and passes to the eye via the superior orbital fissure of the sphenoid bone
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What does III do?
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innervates many of the outer (extrinsic) muscles that move the eye.
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What nerve is responsible for constricting the pupil or innervating muscles to change the shape of the lens for focusing?
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III
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What does ipsilateral mean?
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Same side
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Injury to the occulomotor nerve can cause what?
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ipsilateral palsy
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When checking for pupils that do NOT respond to light as they should, what could be responsible?
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Rostrocaudal brain deterioration, tumors, or cerebral edema
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