Lockwood's ligament

Lockwood's ligament

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, [DorlandsDict|five/000059518|Lockwood ligament] and prevents downward displacement of it.

It can be considered a part of the bulbar sheath. [http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?Lockwood's+ligament]

It is named for Charles Barrett Lockwood.

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