| Suspensory ligament of eyeball | |
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| Latin | ligamentum suspensorium bulbi |
| Gray's | subject #227 1025 |
The suspensory ligament (of Lockwood) 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.
The ligament supports the eye,[1] and prevents downward displacement of it.
It can be considered a part of the bulbar sheath.[2]
It is named for Charles Barrett Lockwood.
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