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Inferior rectus muscle: Structure, Clinical significance & Function

The inferior rectus muscle is a muscle in the orbit near the eye. It is one of the four recti muscles in the group of extraocular muscles. It originates from the common tendinous ring, and inserts into the anteroinferior surface of the eye. It depresses the eye (downwards).

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Inferior rectus muscle topic overview

The analysis highlights Structure, Clinical significance and Function as prominent areas in the source structure around Inferior rectus muscle.

Related topics
28
Source areas
4
Connected nodes
32
Extracted relationships
36
Concept neighborhoods
24
Bridge connections
32

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Structure · 13 topics
Clinical significance · 6 topics
Overview · 6 topics
Function · 3 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Actions
Depression, adduction, extorsion
Artery
Inferior muscular branch of the ophthalmic artery, infraorbital artery
FMA
49036
Insertion
6.8 mm inferior to the corneal limbus
Latin
musculus rectus inferior bulbi
Nerve
Inferior branch of oculomotor nerve

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Overview

Structure

Function

Clinical significance

Advanced semantic analysis

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How Inferior rectus muscle connects Entity context

The extracted context around Inferior rectus muscle shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Inferior rectus muscle → Alternatively, For, If, This Another extracted example is Inferior rectus muscle → It, The, This, Zinn. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Inferior rectus muscle

Top relations

related to Strabismus · 4
Inferior rectus muscle → Alternatively, For, If, This
related to Structure · 4
Inferior rectus muscle → It, The, This, Zinn
related to Additional images · 3
Inferior rectus muscle → Deep, Inferior, Nerves
related to Surgery · 3
Inferior rectus muscle → Any, Nearby, This
related to Blood supply · 2
Inferior rectus muscle → It, The
related to Development · 2
Inferior rectus muscle → The, This
related to Function · 2
Inferior rectus muscle → It, The
related to Nerve supply · 2
Inferior rectus muscle → III, The
related to Variation · 2
Inferior rectus muscle → This, Very
Actions · 1
Inferior rectus muscle → Depression, adduction, extorsion

Important terminology

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Important terminology

muscle rectus inferior eye may branch strabismus pupil muscles superior around mm common tendinous ring nerve orbit depresses insertion artery

Inferior rectus muscle relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 36 structured relationships around Inferior rectus muscle. Examples in this analysis include Inferior rectus muscle → Actions → Depression, adduction, extorsion and Inferior rectus muscle → Artery → Inferior muscular branch of the ophthalmic artery, infraorbital artery. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Inferior rectus muscleActionsDepression, adduction, extorsion1.00infobox
Inferior rectus muscleArteryInferior muscular branch of the ophthalmic artery, infraorbital artery1.00infobox
Inferior rectus muscleFMA490361.00infobox
Inferior rectus muscleInsertion6.8 mm inferior to the corneal limbus1.00infobox
Inferior rectus muscleLatinmusculus rectus inferior bulbi1.00infobox
Inferior rectus muscleNerveInferior branch of oculomotor nerve1.00infobox
Inferior rectus muscleOriginCommon tendinous ring at the orbital apex1.00infobox
Inferior rectus muscleTA220431.00infobox
Inferior rectus muscleTA98A15.2.07.0111.00infobox
Inferior rectus muscleVeinInferior muscular branch of the ophthalmic vein1.00infobox
Inferior rectus muscleis amuscle in the orbit near the eye0.90text
Inferior rectus musclerelated to Additional imagesInferior0.60section

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Inferior rectus muscle bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Rectus, Muscle and Branch. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Inferior rectus muscle
    • Rectus
    • Muscle
    • Branch
    • Eye
    • Muscular
    • Nerve
    • Ophthalmic
    • Superior
    • May
    • Ciliary
    • Oculomotor
    • Orbit
  • inferior rectus muscle
    • Rectus
    • Muscle
    • Branch
    • Eye
    • Superior
    • May
    • Muscular
    • Nerve
    • Ophthalmic
    • Strabismus
    • Pupil
    • Ciliary
  • muscle
    • Rectus
    • Superior
    • Nerve
    • Pupil
    • Strabismus
    • Branch
    • May
    • Ciliary
    • Oculomotor
    • Orbit
    • Parasympathetic
    • Surgery
  • medial rectus muscle
    • Rectus
    • Superior
    • May
    • Nerve
    • Strabismus
    • Branch
    • Pupil
    • Ciliary
    • Oculomotor
    • Parasympathetic
    • Surgery
    • Artery
  • lateral rectus muscle
    • Rectus
    • Superior
    • May
    • Nerve
    • Strabismus
    • Branch
    • Pupil
    • Ciliary
    • Oculomotor
    • Parasympathetic
    • Surgery
    • Artery
  • parasympathetic branch
    • Infraorbital
    • Muscular
    • Ophthalmic
    • Pupil
    • Vein
    • Supplied
    • Surgery
    • Inferior
    • Also
    • Ciliary
    • Common
    • Corneal
  • superior rectus muscle
    • Rectus
    • Superior
    • May
    • Surgery
    • Nerve
    • Strabismus
    • Branch
    • Pupil
    • Around
    • Ciliary
    • Oculomotor
    • Parasympathetic
  • common tendinous ring
    • Originates
    • Ring
    • Tendinous
    • Anteroinferior
    • Corneal
    • Inserts
    • Limbus
    • Oculomotor
    • Surface
    • Vein
    • Artery
    • Infraorbital

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Inferior rectus muscle, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Inferior rectus muscle with Structure. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Inferior rectus muscle — Structure · splits 19 ⟂ 14
Inferior rectus muscle — Overview · splits 26 ⟂ 7
Inferior rectus muscle — Clinical significance · splits 26 ⟂ 7
Inferior rectus muscle — Function · splits 29 ⟂ 4

Map overview Semantic statistics

Inferior rectus muscle

Nodes33
Edges32
Triples36
Avg. degree1.94
Density0.060606
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Inferior rectus muscle to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Structure, Clinical significance & Function, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Inferior rectus muscle · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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