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The suspensory ligament of eyeball (or Lockwood's ligament) forms a hammock stretching below the eyeball between the medial and lateral check ligaments and enclosing the inferior rectus and inferior oblique muscles of the eye.
Charles Barrett Lockwood described a thickening of the lower part of Tenon's capsule, which he named the suspensory ligament of the eye. It is slung like a hammock below the eyeball, being expanded in the center, and narrow at its extremities which are attached to the zygomatic and lacrimal bones respectively.
The "Lockwood's suspensory ligament" of the eye is named after him. This structure is the thickened area of contact between Tenon's capsule and the sheaths of the inferior rectus and inferior oblique muscles. This ligament is responsible for maintaining the position of the eyeball in its normal upward and forward position within the orbit.
A suspensory ligament is a ligament that supports a body part, especially an organ. ... Suspensory ligament of eyeball, also known as Lockwood's ligament;
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The ciliary muscle is attached to the zonular fibers and the zonular fibers are the suspensory ligaments of the lens. [2] The ciliary muscle controls accommodation by altering the shape of the lens to be able to see an object from near to far.
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