MEDICAL PHYSIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The trochlear nerve is one of 12 sets of cranial nerves. It enables movement in the eye’s superior oblique muscle . This makes it possible to look down. The nerve also enables you to move your eyes toward your nose or away from it.

Detailed explanation-2: -The oculomotor nerve is the third cranial nerve (CN III). It enables eye movements, such as focusing on an object that’s in motion. Cranial nerve III also makes it possible to move your eyes up, down and side to side.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Trochlear Nerve controls downward eye movement toward the nose and can be distinguished from the abducens nerve (CN VI) which controls horizontal eye movement and the oculomotor nerve (CN III) which moves the eye in all other directions.

Detailed explanation-4: -Diseases or injuries to the fourth cranial nerve can cause the superior oblique muscle to be paralyzed. The name for this condition is fourth nerve palsy. Other names for it are superior oblique palsy and trochlear nerve palsy. You may have fourth nerve palsy from birth, or you may develop it later.