inferior oblique extraocular muscle
Thin, narrow muscle placed near the anterior margin of the floor of the orbit. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the inferior oblique extraocular muscle is
Thin, narrow muscle placed near the anterior margin of the floor of the orbit. The atlas records it as a muscle at the organ scale in the human body.
Where the inferior oblique extraocular 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 inferior oblique extraocular muscle connects to
The atlas records 4 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. a kind of oblique extraocular muscle.
Supply and innervation
Innervation: oculomotor nerve.
Also called
Also recorded as inferior oblique, inferior oblique muscle, m. obliquus inferior, musculus obliquus inferior, musculus obliquus inferior bulbi and obliquus inferior, and 3 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0006320, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- A kind of: oblique extraocular muscle.
- Innervated by: oculomotor nerve.
- inserts into: lateral rectus extra-ocular muscle.
- originates from: maxilla.
Questions
Where is the inferior oblique extraocular muscle?
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 does the inferior oblique extraocular muscle connect to?
A kind of: oblique extraocular muscle.
Is the inferior oblique extraocular 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.