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Q: What is the ring of muscle around the eye called?
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The very center is the Double Bulls eye, and the small ring around it is the Bulls eye.


What is the center of a dartboard called?

The very center is the double bulls eye, and the small ring around it is just bulls eye.


What is the function of annular ring in the eye?

papilla constrictor muscle of iris diaphragm


Is iris at the back of the eye?

The iris is not at the back of the eye. The structure at the back of the eye (on the inside) is called the retina. That's the part that senses light. The iris is a structure at the front of the eye, consisting of a ring of muscle with an opening in the center, called a pupil. The iris can shrink the pupil, to admit less light, or expand the pupil to a larger size to admit more light. Eye color is deterimned by the iris. It is the only colorful muscle.


What muscle originates on the Occipital Bone and inserts on the Skin and muscle around the eye?

Epicranius Muscle


What is the muscle of the eye lid?

It's called the Levator palpebrae superioris muscle.


What muscle has is origin at the occipital bone and insertion on the skin and muscle around the eye?

Epicranius


Is the eye an involuntary muscle?

The intrinsic muscle are involunary and respond to light intensity and required focal langth without conscious intervention. The extrinsic muscle of the eye are volunary and move the eye to look around under conscious control. The eye itself is ofcourse not a muscle at all.


What is the name for the colored section in your eye?

The coloured section of your eye is called the 'iris'. And the black circular ring is called the pupil.


What does orbicularis mean?

Orbicularis oculi is part of the eye that works your eyelids. This is a muscle in the face.


What extrinsic eye muscle turns the eye up and laterally?

Superior Rectus allows you to look Up & In, whiel the Superior Oblique allows you to look Up & Out.


What is the light sensitive membrane of the eye called?

a flat, colored, ring-shaped membrane of the eye is called the iris