Lecture 16- Movement of extraocular muscles Flashcards
horizontal movement of the eyes mediated by which movement and muscles

- ABDUCTION- lateral rectus muscle
- ADDUCTION- medial rectus muscle
abduction mediated by
lateral rectus muscle
adduction mediated by
medial rectus muscle
outline which movement and which muscles are involved in horizontal movemnt of the eyes to the left

- Right eye – ADDUCTION
- medial rectus muscle
- Left eye- ABDUCTION
- lateral rectus muscle
outline which movement and which muscles are involved in horizontal movemnt of the eyes to the right

action of superior rectus
- Elevates eyeball but has some additional actions
Superior and inferior rectus arise from
the apex of the orbit

SR inserts
obliquely into superior anterolateral surface of the flobe
action of superior rectus muscle if starting from primary resting gaze
- elevate
- slightly adducts (plls eyes medially)
- slightly intorts (internall rotates)
Superior rectus muscle is a more powerful elevator when
eye is positioned laterally
action of inferior rectus muscle
- Depresses eyeball but no additional actions
- Opposite to superior rectus muscle

IR inserts obliquely into
anteroinfeiror surface of the globe
action of IR
- depress
- slightly adducts (pulls eye medially)
- slightly extorts (externally rotates)
IR is a more powerful depressor when
eye is posititoned laterally
both SR and IR are more powerful in their action when
positioned laterally
action of superior oblique
- Intorts the eyeball but also depresses
- Trochlear functional origin

SO muscle arises from
apex of orbit, passes throguh trochlea, inserts into superior- posterior aspect of the globe (posteruor to equator)
SO action (if starting from primary resting gaze)
- intorts internally
- depresses
- slighlty abducts (pulls eye laterally)
SO is most powerful as a depressor when
eye is posittioned medially
Inferior oblique action
- Extort eyeball but also elevates
- Mirror image of SOM
- From floor of orbital cavity
IO arises from
anteromedials urface of floor of orbit
inserts into infero-posteiror aspect of globe (posteiror to equator)

action of IO from primary resting gaze
- extort -externally rotate
- elevate
- slightly abduct (pulls eye laterally)
IO most powerful as an elevator when
eye is positioned medially
IO and SO most powerful when
positioned medially
which extra-ocular msucle shave an action in elevating the eye ball?
superior rectus and infeiror oblique
which extra-ocular muscles have action in depressing the eye ball
inferior rectus and superior oblique
which extra-oclar muscles are stornger elevators and depressors of the eyeball when the eye is in the adducted posittion
Elevator: inferior oblique, depressor: superior oblique
which extra-oclar muscles are stornger elevators and depressors of the eyeball when the eye is in the abducted posittion
elevator: superior rectus, depressor: inferior rectus
if a muscle(s) is weakened
its infleunce (i.e. exerted by its anatomical action on the eyeball) is lost (or reduced)
- other muscle actions no longer antagonised (balanced out)
- difficulty with moving eye in certain directions of gaze
resting position pf eye when a muscle is weakened
weakness of eye may only be apaprent
on clinical exam
- In what pisition is the abnormal eye held

1. ADDUCTED- medially
what muscular action on the eyeball is no longer acting on the eye, given its position

action that pulls eye medially unopposed- ABDUCTION
- lateral rectus
which nerve innervates the lateral rectus
abduences (CN 6)
- in what position is the abnormal eye held?

1. Elevated and ADDUCTED (medial)
what muscular action on the eyeball is no longer action on the eye given its position
depression and abducted (down and out)
- superior oblique
which nerve inverbates the superior oblique?
CN IV- trochlear