The extraocular muscles, or extrinsic ocular muscles, are the seven extrinsic muscles of the eye in humans and other animals. Six of the extraocular muscles...
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Ophthalmoparesis (redirect from Extraocular muscle paresis)
refers to weakness (-paresis) or paralysis (-plegia) of one or more extraocular muscles which are responsible for eye movements. It is a physical finding...
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ALS (redirect from Extraocular muscles and ALS)
although trouble getting to a toilet can lead to difficulties. The extraocular muscles responsible for eye movement are usually spared, meaning the use...
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The medial rectus muscle is a muscle in the orbit near the eye. It is one of the extraocular muscles. It originates from the common tendinous ring, and...
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20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918) "Extraocular Muscle Actions: Eye Movements, Rectus Muscles, Oblique Muscles". 19 July 2021. Dr. Robert Acland's Atlas...
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The lateral rectus muscle is a muscle on the lateral side of the eye in the orbit. It is one of six extraocular muscles that control the movements of the...
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margin of the floor of the orbit. The inferior oblique is one of the extraocular muscles, and is attached to the maxillary bone (origin) and the posterior...
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and function of extraocular muscles that predispose them to weakness in MG. Compared to extremity muscles, extraocular muscles are smaller, served by more...
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Oculomotor nerve (section Eye muscles)
The muscles it controls are the striated muscle in levator palpebrae superioris and other extraocular muscles except for the superior oblique muscle and...
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Human eye (section Extraocular muscles)
and sticky composition. Each eye has seven extraocular muscles located in its orbit. Six of these muscles control the eye movements, the seventh controls...
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Congenital fibrosis of the extraocular muscles is a class of rare genetic disorders affecting one or more of the muscles that move the eyeballs. Individuals...
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Strabismus surgery (section Rectus muscle procedures)
Strabismus surgery (also: extraocular muscle surgery, eye muscle surgery, or eye alignment surgery) is surgery on the extraocular muscles to correct strabismus...
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inferior rectus muscle is a muscle in the orbit near the eye. It is one of the four recti muscles in the group of extraocular muscles. It originates from...
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subdivisions of muscle groups in the hand, foot, tongue, and extraocular muscles of the eye. Muscles are also grouped into compartments including four groups...
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The superior rectus muscle is a muscle in the orbit. It is one of the extraocular muscles. It is innervated by the superior division of the oculomotor...
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Synkinesis (section Extra-ocular muscle synkinesis)
cranial muscles, such as the facial muscles and the extraocular muscles. This is in contrast to areas of body where miswiring of the larger muscles is less...
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Strabismus (category Disorders of ocular muscles, binocular movement, accommodation and refraction)
undergoing strabismus surgery. The extraocular muscles control the position of the eyes. Thus, a problem with the muscles or the nerves controlling them can...
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inflammation and edema of the extraocular muscles lead to gaze abnormalities. The inferior rectus muscle is the most commonly affected muscle and patient may experience...
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strabismus. Agents used include paralytic agents such as botox used on extraocular muscles, topical autonomic nervous system agents to alter the refractive...
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Abdominal internal oblique muscle Extraocular muscles Inferior oblique muscle Superior oblique muscle Oblique muscle of auricle, part of the outer ear...
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orbital contents comprise the eye, the orbital and retrobulbar fascia, extraocular muscles, cranial nerves II, III, IV, V, and VI, blood vessels, fat, the lacrimal...
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Botulinum toxin (category Muscle relaxants)
toxin into monkey extraocular muscles. The result was remarkable; a few picograms induced paralysis that was confined to the target muscle, long in duration...
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to the extraocular muscles that are outside of the eye and control the external movement of the eye. There are three intrisic ocular muscles: the ciliary...
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Larynx (redirect from Laryngeal muscles)
laryngeal muscles and extraocular muscles over the limb muscle suggests a role for store operated calcium entry channels in those muscles' functional...
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condition for muscles. Both the extensor and flexor muscles are involved in the maintenance of a constant tone while at rest. In skeletal muscles, this helps...
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Eye movement (section Muscles)
though the voluntary control is obliterated. Six extraocular muscles facilitate eye movement. These muscles arise from the common tendinous ring (annulus...
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toxin into monkey extraocular muscles. The result was remarkable: a few picograms induced paralysis that was confined to the target muscle, long in duration...
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of the extraocular muscles, where both eyes are still functional, but they cannot turn to target the desired object. Problems with these muscles may be...
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Trochlea of superior oblique (redirect from Trochlea of superior oblique muscles)
so contraction of the muscle also tends to abduct the eyeball (turn it outward). In fact, each of the six extraocular muscles exerts rotational forces...
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gaze test the extraocular muscles: inferior, superior, lateral and medial rectus muscles, as well as the superior and inferior oblique muscles. Testing the...
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