orbicularis oculi muscle

A circumorbital muscle in the face that closes the eyelid[HP]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the orbicularis oculi muscle is

A circumorbital muscle in the face that closes the eyelid[HP]. The atlas records it as a muscle at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the orbicularis oculi muscle is

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

What the orbicularis oculi muscle connects to

The atlas records 7 typed relationships for it, across 6 kinds of connection. part of camera-type eye.

Supply and innervation

Innervation: facial nerve.

Also called

Also recorded as orbicularis oculi, musculus orbicularis oculi and tensor tarsi. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001578, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: camera-type eye.
• A kind of: muscle organ.
• originates from: lacrimal bone and tetrapod frontal bone.
• Innervated by: facial nerve.
• inserts into: eyelid tarsus.
• contains: skeletal muscle tissue of orbicularis oculi.

Questions

Where is the orbicularis oculi muscle?

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

What does the orbicularis oculi muscle connect to?

Part of: camera-type eye.

Is the orbicularis oculi 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.