Suspensory ligament of eyeball
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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