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Definition of Lateral rectus

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

Definition of Lateral rectus

1. Noun. A muscle in the orbit of the eye. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Lateral rectus

1. Origin, lateral part of the common tendinous ring that bridges superior orbital fissure; insertion, lateral part of sclera of eye; action, abduction; nerve supply, abducens. Synonym: musculus rectus lateralis, abducens oculi, musculus rectus externus. (05 Mar 2000)

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Literary usage of Lateral rectus

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

1. Cunningham's Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham, Arthur Robinson (1914)
"The abducent nerve will be found closely applied to the ocular surface of the lateral rectus. It enters the orbit through the narrow interval between the ..."

2. Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham (1921)
"The lacrimal, frontal, and trochlear nerves enter the orbit above the upper head of the lateral rectus muscle, on very much the same plane (Fig. 96). ..."

3. Anatomical Technology as Applied to the Domestic Cat: An Introduction to by Burt Green Wilder, Simon Henry Gage (1882)
"In clearing away the fibrous tissue from the ball to expose the lateral rectus, this muscle also will be exposed. It appears as a circular band overlapping ..."

4. Guiding principles in surgical practice by Frederick Emil Neef (1914)
"The method which I have outlined, may be appropriately designated, the mesial rectus incision, to distinguish from the lateral rectus incision in which the ..."

5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1882)
"A single inferior reclus and a lateral reclus on each side were found ; the right lateral rectus was joined at its anterior third by a band of muscular ..."

6. Psychology, from the Standpoint of a Behaviorist by John Broadus Watson (1919)
"The joint action of the medial rectus and of the lateral rectus rotates the eye inward and outward. The superior rectus and the inferior rectus rotate the ..."

7. Anatomy of the Cat by Jacob Ellsworth Reighard, Herbert Spencer Jennings (1901)
"At about the middle of the length of the muscle it divides into two or three branches which enter at once into the lateral rectus and supply it. VII. ..."

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