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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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 (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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  • 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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    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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    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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