Muscles of the eye
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18 Terms
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A: Abduct eyeball
A: Abducts, depresses and medially rotates eyeball
A: Abducts, elevates and laterally rotates eyeball
A: Adducts eyeball
A: Depresses, adducts and rotates eyeball medially
A: Elevates superior eyelid
A: Elevates, adducts and rotates eyeball medially
I: Passes through the trochlea and inserts on the sclera deep to superior rectus
I: Sclera deep to lateral rectus muscles
I: Sclera just posterior to cornea
I: Tarsal plate and skin of superior eyelid
N: Abducent nerve (CN VI)
N: Oculomotor (CN III)
N: Trochlear nerve (CN IV)
O: Anterior part of the floor of orbit
O: Body of sphenoid bone
O: Common tendinous ring
O: Lesser wing of sphenoid bone