Any of the striated muscles that move the eye and include: superior rectus, inferior rectus, medial rectus, lateral rectus, superior oblique, inferior oblique, retractor bulbi. [ http://www.informatics.jax.org/accession/cwg MP:0005247 ]
Synonyms: ocular smooth muscle
Term information
pheno_slim
Not clear if we need this and intra-ocular muscle. See issue #331. MA includes ciliary and iris smooth muscle
Term relations
- smooth muscle tissue
- ectoderm-derived structure
- contributes to morphology of some musculature
- part of some camera-type eye