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Friday, 26 December 2014

Extraocular muscles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_eye

Each eye has six muscles that control its movements: the lateral rectus, the medial rectus, the inferior rectus, the superior rectus, the inferior oblique, and the superior oblique. When the muscles exert different tensions, a torque is exerted on the globe that causes it to turn, in almost pure rotation, with only about one millimeter of translation.Thus, the eye can be considered as undergoing rotations about a single point in the center of the eye.

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