Definition of Rectus medialis

1. Noun. The ocular muscle whose contraction turns the eyeball medially.

Exact synonyms: Medial Rectus, Medial Rectus Muscle
Generic synonyms: Eye Muscle, Ocular Muscle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rectus Medialis

rectresses
rectrices
rectrix
rectums
rectus
rectus abdominis
rectus capitis anterior
rectus capitis lateralis
rectus capitis posterior major
rectus capitis posterior minor
rectus femoris
rectus inferior
rectus lateralis
rectus medialis (current term)
rectus muscle of thigh
rectus superior
recubation
recuile
recuiled
recuiles
recuiling
recule
reculed
recules
reculing
recultivate

Literary usage of Rectus medialis

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

1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"The Rectus lateralis of one eye and the rectus medialis of the other may ... Nervo to rectus medialis arising from the nucleus of the oculomotor of the same ..."

2. The Nervous System and Its Constituent Neurones: Designed for the Use of by Lewellys Franklin Barker (1899)
"Assuming that the M. rectus medialis is innervated mainly by crossed root fibres of the nervus oculomotorius, they suggest that a connection by means of the ..."

3. The Nervous System and Its Constituent Neurones: Designed for the Use of by Lewellys Franklin Barker (1899)
"Assuming that the M. rectus medialis is innervated mainly by crossed root fibres of the nervus oculomotorius. they suggest that a connection by means of the ..."

4. The Nervous System and Its Constituent Neurones: Designed for the Use of by Lewellys Franklin Barker (1901)
"Assuming that the M. rectus medialis is innervated mainly by crossed root fibres of the nervus oculomotorius. they suggest that a connection by means of the ..."

5. Manual of Neuro-surgery by United States Surgeon-General's Office (1919)
"7, nerve to rectus medialis arising from the nucleus of the ocu'.o-motor of ... 8, decussation of the fibers of the abducent nerve to the rectus medialis. ..."

6. Anatomy of the Human Body by Henry Gray (1918)
"The contraction of the Rectus lateralis or rectus medialis, on the other hand, produces a purely horizontal movement. If any two neighboring Recti of one ..."

7. The Anatomy of the Nervous System from the Standpoint of Development and by Stephen Walter Ranson (1920)
"... rectus superior, rectus medialis, obliquus inferior, and rectus inferior. Bernheimer says that the fibers for the rectus inferior are entirely crossed, ..."

8. Morris's Human Anatomy: A Complete Systematic Treatise by English and by Henry Morris, James Playfair McMurrich (1907)
"... posterior ethmoidal (spheno-ethmoidal) branch springs from the posterior border of the naso-ciliary nerve near the upper border of the rectus medialis. ..."

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