| 11. | When cranial nerves are affected, neuropathies of the oculomotor nerve ( cranial nerve # 3 ) are most common.
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| 12. | Specific nerves include several cranial nerves, specifically the oculomotor nerve, facial nerve, glossopharyngeal nerve, and vagus nerve.
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| 13. | This can cause palsy of the facial nerve or oculomotor nerve or hearing loss due to damage of cranial nerve VIII.
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| 14. | The condition can also result from aplasia or hypoplasia of one or more of the muscles supplied by the oculomotor nerve.
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| 15. | The oculomotor nerve comes out between the peduncles, and the trochlear nerve is visible wrapping around the outside of the peduncles.
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| 16. | A complete oculomotor nerve palsy will result in a characteristic " down and out " position in the affected eye.
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| 17. | This is called herniation and will often cause an enlarged pupil on the affected side, due to pressure on the oculomotor nerve.
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| 18. | The oculomotor neurons functions to send its axons in the oculomotor nerve, to control the medial rectus, and converge the two eyes.
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| 19. | It is important to distinguish the ptosis caused by Horner's syndrome from the ptosis caused by a lesion to the oculomotor nerve.
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| 20. | More rarely, the oculomotor nerve and trochlear nerve ( weakness of the muscles of facial expression on one or both sides of the face.
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