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Inferior rectus muscle


Template:Muscle infobox The inferior rectus muscle is a muscle in the orbit.

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It depresses, adducts, rotates laterally, and extorts the eye.

Innervation

Innervation

As with most of the muscles of the orbit, it is innervated by the oculomotor nerve (Cranial Nerve III).

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