Term: ventral oblique extraocular muscle muscle tendon junction
Name: ventral oblique extraocular muscle
Synonyms: inferior oblique muscle, ventral oblique extraocular muscles
Definition: Extraocular muscle that inserts at the scleral-corneal junction on the ventral side of the eye. The insertion point of the ventral oblique and the ventral rectus overlap in adult fish. All the oblique extraocular muscles originate together from the anterior ethmoid plate. The ventral oblique is innervated by the oculomotor nerve.
Ontology: Anatomy Ontology [ZFA:0000861]

Name: muscle tendon junction
Synonyms: myotendinous junction
Definition: A cell-substrate junction found at the terminal anchorage site of skeletal muscle cells to tendons.
Ontology: GO: Cellular Component [GO:0005927]    QuickGO    AmiGO