oculomotor nerve (medicine) and raze (iou)

oculomotor nerve (medicine)

oculomotor nerve
<anatomy, nerve> Responsible for motor enervation of upper eyelid muscle, extraocular muscle and pupillary muscle. Lesions of the oculomotor nerve results in ptosis (dropping eyelid), deviation of the eyeball outward, double vision and a dilated pupil.

raze (iou)

raze verb & noun. . ME.
[Old & mod. French raser shave close from Proto-Romance from Latin ras- pa. ppl stem of radere scrape, scratch.]
A. verb.
verb trans. Scratch, tear; cut, slash; incise (a mark or line). Now techn. ME.
b. verb intrans. Make an incised mark; slash. Now arch. rare. LME.
c. verb trans. Cut or wound slightly. Now arch. & dial. L16.
verb trans. Remove by scraping; scratch out; erase (esp. Writing). Usu. foll. by adverb. Chiefly fig. LME.
verb trans. Scrape (a thing), esp. to remove something from a surface; spec. (a) alter (a manuscript etc.) by erasure; (b) shave; (c) scrape down into small particles, grate. Now rare exc. dial. LME.
b. Scrape, graze, or come close to (a thing) in passing. Now rare. M16.
verb trans.
a. Make level. rare. Only in L15.
b. Tear down, destroy completely, level, (a building, town, etc.). Freq. in raze to the ground. M16.
J. A. Michener This once formidable range was razed absolutely flat by erosion. P. Carey Men raze villages and annihilate whole populations. P. Ackroyd Fire..inflicted disaster..razing offices and homes.
c. Remove completely, esp. from a place, situation, etc. L16.
b. noun.
A scratch, a scrape; a cut, a slit. L15.
The action of scratching, scraping, or cutting; the fact of being scratched, scraped, or cut. M16-E17.
razing noun (a) the action of the verb; (b) collect. (rare) shavings, scrapings: LME.

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