Multiple choice

After a car accident that produced trauma to a 40-years-old woman’s skull, she complained of double vision. The doctor would need to consider which of the following cranial nerves in his diagnosis?

  1. Optic (II), oculomotor (III) and trigeminal (V)

  2. Oculomotor (III), trochlear (IV) and trigeminal (V)

  3. Oculomotor (III), trochlear (IV) and abducens (VI)

  4. Oculomotor (III), trigeminal (V) and abducens (VI)

  5. Oculomotor (III), trigeminal (V) and facial (VII)
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Yes, it is correct. The oculomotor nerve (III) supplies four of the six extraocular muscles.

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