Definition of Eye muscle

1. Noun. One of the small muscles of the eye that serve to rotate the eyeball.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Eye Muscle

eye drops
eye enucleation
eye evisceration
eye fillet
eye floaters
eye for an eye
eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
eye haemorrhage
eye infection
eye infections
eye injuries
eye lens
eye manifestations
eye mask
eye movements
eye muscle (current term)
eye of a needle
eye of the beholder
eye of the storm
eye ointment
eye opener
eye patch
eye pattern
eye protective devices
eye reflex
eye rhyme
eye rhymes
eye shadow
eye sight
eye socket

Literary usage of Eye muscle

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Examination of the Vestibular Eye-reflexes in Cases with Eye-muscle Paralysis or Conjugate Deviation It must be determined whether the eye-muscle paralysis ..."

2. Journal of Morphology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1903)
"The orbital openings of the eye-muscle canal give passage, on each side, ... The course of this vessel after it entered the eye- muscle canal was not traced ..."

3. Outlines of Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates by John Sterling Kingsley (1917)
"The peculiarities and inequalities of the distribution of the three eye- muscle nerves receive their explanation in the development of the eye muscles. ..."

4. The Nervous System of Vertebrates by John Black Johnston (1906)
"Such bundles have been seen in selachians going to the nucleus of each of the eye-muscle nerves. A part of the fibers enter the fasciculus longitudinalis ..."

5. The Eye and Nervous System: Their Diagnostic Relations by William Campbell Posey, William Gibson Spiller (1906)
"5. Anomalies of the iris movements, or hysterical pupil phenomena. G. Anomalies of the eyelid and eye-muscle movements, or hysterical contractures, ..."

6. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1882)
"In spite, however, of taking " all conceivable pains," he was unable to ascertain whether this hitherto overlooked eye-muscle nerve arises independently ..."

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