| 11. | The extraocular muscles rotate the eyeball around vertical, horizontal and antero-posterior axes.
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| 12. | Blinking is linked with the extraocular muscles.
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| 13. | Bupivacaine injection is currently the only pharmacologic treatment clinically shown to strengthen and shorten extraocular muscles.
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| 14. | This allows for strabismus to occur without the direct impairment of any cranial nerves or extraocular muscles.
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| 15. | It is the largest of the extraocular muscles and its only action is adduction of the eyeball.
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| 16. | Depending on the severity of physical trauma sustained, surgical realignment of the extraocular muscles may relieve strabismus.
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| 17. | Frequently involved structures include the lacrimal glands, extraocular muscles, infraorbital nerve, supraorbital nerve and eyelids.
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| 18. | With enlargement of the extraocular muscle at the orbital apex, the optic nerve is at risk of compression.
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| 19. | Mutations in this gene have been associated with autosomal recessive congenital fibrosis of the extraocular muscles ( CFEOM2 ).
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| 20. | For instance, thigh muscles can have a thousand fibers in each unit, while extraocular muscles might have ten.
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