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extraocular muscles

extraocular muscles is the plural of extraocular muscle.

Meaning of extraocular muscle

Noun

extraocular muscle (plural extraocular muscles)

  1. Any of the six small voluntary muscles that pass between the eyeball and the orbit and control the movement and stabilization of the eyeball in relation to the orbit.

Questions about extraocular muscles

What is extraocular muscles the plural of?
Extraocular muscles is the plural of extraocular muscle.

Words near extraocular muscles in the dictionary

  1. extranucleolar
  2. extranucleosomal
  3. extranumerary
  4. extraocular
  5. extraocular muscle
  6. extraocular muscles
  7. extraocularly
  8. extraoesophageal
  9. extraofficial
  10. extraoocyte
  11. extraoperative

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