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What is the extrinsic eye muscle that circles the bottom part of the eyeball?
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The muscle that circles underneath the eyeball is the inferior oblique. The purpose of the inferior oblique is to move the eye upward.
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Cranial nerve involved in vision and visual fields?
The optic nerve (purely sensory; carry afferent impulses for vision) Oculomotor (innervates four of the extrinsic eye muscles) Trochlear (innervates an extrinsic eye muscle that hooks through a pulley-shaped ligament in the orbit) Abducens (innervates the muscle that turns abducts the eyeball)
What is the medial rectus muscle of the eye?
it is the lower muscle of the eyeball. Helps move the eyeball.
The extrinsic muscle of the hand originate on the what?
Extrinsic muscles of the hand originate in the antebrachium (forearm).
What is a dearses?
a muscle in your eyeball
A person with an injury to the extrinsic muscles of the eye would find it difficult to focuse on what?
c. move the eyeball, reference: -noun Anatomy. any of six small muscles that control the horizontal, vertical, and rotating movements of the eyeball.Also called extraocular muscle.
What extrinsic muscle Turns eye up and laterally is called what extrinsic muscle?
Inferior Oblique Human & Physiology Lab Manual, Cat Edition 10th Edition p365
Why is it more of a strain on the intrinsic and extrinsic eye muscle to look at the close objects than at far objects?
extrinsic muscles are strained
What is considered to be an extrinsic glenohumeral muscle?
latissimus dorsi & pectoralis major
What is the condition caused by unequal tension exerted by the extrinsic eye muscle?
strabismus
What extrinsic eye muscle turns the eye medially?
The Medial Rectus.
Which extrinsic eye muscle turns the eye laterally?
The inferior oblique muscle, which is located in the anterior portion beneath the eye (hence the inferior in the name). Its full Latin name is obliquus oculi inferior.
What extrinsic eye muscle would cause lateral strabismus of the right eye?
lateral rectus
