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| Rectus muscles: |
2 = superior, 3 = inferior, 4 = medial, 5 = lateral
Oblique muscles: 6 = superior, 8 = inferior
Other muscle: 9 = levator palpebrae superioris
Other structures: 1 = Annulus of Zinn, 7 = Trochlea, 10 = Superior tarsus, 11 = Sclera, 12 = Optic nerve
|Sagittal section of right orbital cavity.|
|Latin||musculus obliquus inferior bulbi|
|Gray's||subject #227 1023|
|Origin:||inferior rim of the orbit, directly below the supraorbital notch|
|Insertion:||laterally onto the eyeball, deep to the lateral rectus, by a short flat tendon|
|Action:||extorsion, elevation, abduction|
The Obliquus oculi inferior (inferior oblique) is a thin, narrow muscle, placed near the anterior margin of the floor of the orbit.
Its actions are lateral rotation, elevation and abduction of the eye.
Primary action is extorsion; secondary action is elevation; tertiary action is abduction (i.e. it extorts the eye and moves it upward and outward). The field of maximal inferior oblique elevation is in the adducted position.
Passing lateralward, backward, and upward, between the inferior rectus and the floor of the orbit, the inferior oblique inserts onto the scleral surface between the inferior rectus and lateral rectus.
It is the only muscle of eye movement whose origin is not on the common tendonous ring (annulus of Zinn).
The inferior oblique is innervated by the inferior division of the oculomotor nerve (cranial nerve III).
While commonly affected by palsies of the inferior division of the oculomotor nerve, isolated palsies of the inferior oblique (without affecting other functions of the oculomotor nerve) are quite rare.
"Overaction" of the inferior oblique muscle is a commonly observed component of childhood strabismus, particularly infantile esotropia and exotropia. Because true hyperinnervation is not usually present, this phenomenon is better termed "elevation in adduction".
- LUC io
- GPnotebook -133824433
- SUNY Figs 29:01-08
- Dictionary at eMedicine inferior+oblique+muscle
- Norman/Georgetown lesson3 (orbit5)
- Image at childrenshospital.org
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