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extraocular muscle (EOM)
The muscles within the orbit including:
1) the 4 rectus muscles
a) superior rectus (CN III)
b) inferior rectus (CN III)
c) medial rectus (CN III)
d) lateral_rectus (CN VI)
2) superior oblique (CN IV)
3) levator palpebrae superioris (CN III)
Function:
- the extraocular muscles control eye movements
Related
congenital fibrosis of extraocular muscles
Specific
inferior rectus (IR)
lateral rectus (LR)
levator palpebrae superioris
medial rectus (MR)
superior oblique muscle (SO)
superior rectus (SR)
General
skeletal muscle (voluntary muscle)
References
Stedman's Medical Dictionary 26th ed, Williams &
Wilkins, Baltimore, 1995