Research Article
Comparison of the Superior and Inferior Rectus Muscles in Humans: An Anatomical Study with Notes on Morphology, Anatomical Variations, and Intramuscular Innervation Patterns
Table 1
Descriptive statistics for the data collected based on the measurements of the inferior rectus muscle and its motor nerve branches.
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1: the inferior rectus muscle’s length measured between its origin and the distal tendon’s insertion; 2: origin’s width; 3: muscle’s width at midlength; 4: muscle’s insertion width; 5: muscle’s thickness at midlength; 6: distance at which the motor nerve subbranches penetrated the internal muscle’s surface measured from the muscle’s insertion; 7: distance between the muscle’s insertion and the location where the oculomotor nerve’s muscular subbranches penetrated the muscle’s internal surface referenced (a quotient) to the muscle’s total length expressed as a percentage; 8: distance between the muscle’s insertion and the anterior-most terminations of the nerves’ subbranches referenced (a quotient) to the muscle’s total length. |