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Mnemonic

Extraocular Muscle Total Count

Mnemonic for the total number of extraocular muscles including the eyelid elevator.

Anatomy Head and Neck
Expansion

Six steer the eye, plus one lifts the lid, seven total, that's the bid

Expansion

  • Six eyeball movers - four recti and two obliques
  • One eyelid elevator - levator palpebrae superioris