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Musculoskeletal System > Muscles > Muscle, Striated > Muscle, Skeletal > Oculomotor Muscles
Tissues > Muscles > Muscle, Striated > Muscle, Skeletal > Oculomotor Muscles

Preferred term

Oculomotor Muscles  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Extraocular Muscle
  • Extraocular Muscles

Note

  • /innerv = probably OCULOMOTOR NERVE but consider also ABDUCENS NERVE & TROCHLEAR NERVE; paralysis = OCULOMOTOR PARALYSIS see OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; /growth: coordinate with MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; /embryol: coordinate with MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT if pertinent

Scope note

  • The muscles that move the eye. Included in this group are the medial rectus, lateral rectus, superior rectus, inferior rectus, inferior oblique, superior oblique, musculus orbitalis, and levator palpebrae superioris.

In other languages

  • silmälihakset

    Finnish

  • silmälihas
  • silmän liikelihakset
  • silmän liikelihas
  • silmän motorinen lihas
  • silmän motoriset lihakset
  • Ögonmuskler

    Swedish

  • Extraokulära muskler
  • Musculi bulbi
  • Okulomotoriska muskler

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D009801

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