Inferior rectus muscle

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

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

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  Dissection showing origins of right ocular muscles, and nerves entering by the superior orbital fissure.
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  The right eye in sagittal section, showing the fascia bulbi (semidiagrammatic).

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• Diagram at mun.ca

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