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Definition of Inferior rectus
1. Noun. The ocular muscle whose contraction turns the eyeball down and medially.
Definition of Inferior rectus
1. Noun. A muscle in the orbit of the eye. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Inferior rectus
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Inferior Rectus
Literary usage of Inferior rectus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"Passing outward, hackward, and upward between the inferior rectus and the floor
of the orbit, and then between the eyeball and the External rectus, ..."
2. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1900)
"inferior rectus and superior oblique. Upwards. Superior rectus and inferior oblique.
Upwards and to Superior rectus, internal rectus and nasal side. ..."
3. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1910)
"Passing outward, backward, and upward between the inferior rectus and the floor
of the orbit, and then between the eyeball and the External rectus, ..."
4. A Text-book of physiology by Michael Foster (1891)
"Rectus superior and externus with obliquus inferior. Rectus inferior and externus
with obliquus superior. Coordination of visual movements. ..."
5. A Treatise on the Diseases of the Eye by John Soelberg Wells (1883)
"The action of the inferior rectus alone, would be to draw the eye downwards and
inwards, and to incline the vertical meridian outwards, hence it must be ..."
6. Diseases of the Eye: Handbook of Ophthalmic Practice for Students and by George Edmund De Schweinitz (1903)
"Paralysis of an inferior rectus or superior oblique produces vertical diplopia
in the lower field. («) If the diplopia is homonymous, paralysis of a ..."
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