Orbicular muscle of the eye
Musculus orbicularis oculi
Closes the eye.
- System
- Muscle
- Region
- Head
- Sides
- Paired: left and right
Where it runs from and to
A muscle is told apart from its neighbours by what it takes hold of at each end, which is also what decides what it does when it shortens.
- Origin
- by short tendon-fibres from a tubercle on the surface of the frontal process of the maxillary bone just dorsad of the orbital end of the lachrymal canal and between the two parts of the quadratus labii superioris .
- Action
- Closes the eye.
Terminology
- English
- Orbicular muscle of the eye
- Latin (NAV)
- Musculus orbicularis oculi
- Status
- A valid term in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria