medial rectus
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Extraocular
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Extraocular
muscles • Eye and extraocular muscles (illustrations) - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia
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Lateral
rectus muscle • Innervation of the medial and lateral recti muscles (Gray's illustration) - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia
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Extraocular
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Lateral
rectus muscle • CT head coronal - labeling questions - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia
The medial rectus muscle is one of the 6 extraocular muscles that control eye movements.
Summary
- innervation: inferior branch of the oculomotor nerve (CN III)
- origin: annulus of Zinn (tendinous ring)
- insertion: globe (anterior, medial surface)
- primary function: one of three ocular adductors
- secondary function: none
- tertiary function: none
See also
Siehe auch:
- extraocular muscles
- lateral rectus
- ocular adductors
- Nervus oculomotorius
- Annulus of Zinn
- inferior rectus
- inferior oblique
- superior rectus
- superior oblique
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