Medical Dictionary

trochlear nerve

noun

Medical Definition of TROCHLEAR NERVE

:  either of the fourth pair of cranial nerves that arise from the dorsal aspect of the brain stem just below the inferior colliculus and supply the superior oblique muscle of the eye with motor fibers
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