Yes, the eyeball is attached to six different muscles that control its movement. These muscles allow the eye to move up, down, left, right, and diagonally.
The six extraocular muscles control and coordinate the movements of the eye: the lateral rectus, medial rectus, superior rectus, inferior rectus, superior oblique, and inferior oblique muscles. Each muscle is responsible for a specific movement of the eye in different directions.
There are three cranial nerves that innervates muscle to move the eye. The main cranial nerve that controls eye movement is occulomotor nerve (CN III). It is responsible for inferior rectus, superior rectus, medial rectus, and inferior oblique. Lateral rectus muscle is innervated by abducens nerve (CN VI). Superior oblique muscle is innervated by trochlear nerve (CN III).
The orbicularis oculi is the muscle responsible for closing the eye. It is a sphincter muscle that surrounds the eye.
The occipitofrontalis muscle originates on the occipital bone and inserts on the skin and muscle around the eye. It is responsible for raising the eyebrows and wrinkling the forehead.
Eye movements are accomplished by the Extraocular Muscles. The muscle that moves the eye medially is the Medial Rectus.
A total of six muscle move each eyeball, 4 rectus muscels and 2 obliques. The superior, inferior, lateral and medial rectal muscle all pull the eye to be looking more in ther own direction. The superior oblique pulls the eye to look down and laterally and the inferior oblique pull the eye to look um and medialy.
The Medial Rectus.
Trick question! Inferior Rectus and Superior Oblique. You sneaky person you :)
Superior Rectus
The medial rectus muscle is responsible for moving the eyeball medially by contracting. This muscle is one of the extraocular muscles that control eye movements.
The inferior oblique muscle of the eye, abducts, elevates and laterally rotates the eye
Superior Rectus allows you to look Up & In, whiel the Superior Oblique allows you to look Up & Out.
Inferior Oblique Human & Physiology Lab Manual, Cat Edition 10th Edition p365
The muscle that circles underneath the eyeball is the inferior oblique. The purpose of the inferior oblique is to move the eye upward.
The inferior oblique muscle, which is located in the anterior portion beneath the eye (hence the inferior in the name). Its full Latin name is obliquus oculi inferior.
The ipsilateral antagonist of the right inferior oblique muscle is the right superior oblique muscle. The superior oblique muscle acts to depress and abduct the eye, while the inferior oblique muscle acts to elevate and abduct the eye.