extra-ocular muscle in dogs

Skeletal muscle derived from cranial mesoderm and controls eye movements. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the extra-ocular muscle is

Skeletal muscle derived from cranial mesoderm and controls eye movements. The atlas records it as a muscle at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the extra-ocular muscle is

It sits in the head, within the muscular and sensory systems. Not positioned individually, and containment is not asserted either. Drawn near structures of the same kind, which is a weak claim about location.

What the extra-ocular muscle connects to

The atlas records 12 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of camera-type eye, craniocervical region and craniocervical region musculature, and 1 more.

Supply and innervation

Innervation: abducens nerve and oculomotor nerve.

Also called

Also recorded as extra-ocular skeletal muscle, extraocular muscle, extraocular musculature, extraocular skeletal muscle, extrinsic eye muscle and extrinsic muscle of eyeball, and 2 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001601, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

Part of: camera-type eye, craniocervical region, craniocervical region musculature and orbital region.
A kind of: anatomical structure, eye muscle, skeletal muscle organ, vertebrate and skeletal muscle tissue.
Innervated by: abducens nerve and oculomotor nerve.
subtype: levator palpebrae superioris and oculomotor muscle.

Questions

Where is the extra-ocular muscle?

What does the extra-ocular muscle connect to?

Part of: camera-type eye, craniocervical region, craniocervical region musculature and orbital region.

Is the extra-ocular muscle the same in other species?

This page describes the dog. The human record of the same structure sits beside it on /compare, over one shared model rather than two atlases built separately.