extra-ocular muscle

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 human body.

Where the extra-ocular muscle is

It sits in the head, within the muscular and sensory systems. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

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 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, musculature and ocular adnexa.
• A kind of: muscle organ, skeletal muscle organ, vertebrate and skeletal muscle tissue.
• subtype: levator palpebrae superioris, oblique extraocular muscle and rectus extraocular muscle.
• Innervated by: abducens nerve and oculomotor nerve.

Questions

Where is the extra-ocular muscle?

It sits in the head, within the muscular and sensory systems. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the extra-ocular muscle connect to?

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

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

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.