Preferred Label : Extraocular Muscle;
NCIt synonyms : EOM;
NCIt related terms : MUSCLE, EXTRAOCULAR; Oculomotor Muscle;
NCIt definition : A group of extrinsic muscles that are responsible for moving the eye and lifting the
eyelid. These include: superior rectus, inferior rectus, medial rectus, inferior oblique,
and levator palpebrae superioris, all innervated by CN III (oculomotor nerve), superior
oblique, innervated by CN IV (trochlear nerve), lateral rectus, innervated by CN VI
(abducens nerve).;
Alternative definition : CDISC: A group of muscles in the orbit extending from the posterior orbit to the eye
and upper eyelid; primary function is the movement of the eye and retraction of the
upper eyelid.;
Origin ID : C33199;
UMLS CUI : C0028863;
Anatomic structure is physical part of
- Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- False automatic mappings
- Semantic type(s)
- UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- anatomic_structure_has_location
- concept_is_in_subset
