Anatomical term for eye movements
"-duction" redirects here. For the terms of logic ending in this suffix, see
inductive reasoning.
A duction is an eye movement involving only one eye.[1] There are generally six possible movements depending upon the eye's axis of rotation:
- Abduction refers to the outward movement of an eye.
- Adduction refers to the inward movement of an eye
- Supraduction / sursumduction / elevation
- Infraduction / deorsumduction / depression
- Incycloduction / intorsion
- Excycloduction / extorsion
- ^ Kanski, JJ. Clinical Ophthalmology: A Systematic Approach. Boston:Butterworth-Heinemann;1989.