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Definition of Ocular muscle
1. Noun. One of the small muscles of the eye that serve to rotate the eyeball.
Generic synonyms: Muscle, Musculus
Group relationships: Eye, Oculus, Optic
Specialized synonyms: Abducens Muscle, Lateral Rectus, Lateral Rectus Muscle, Rectus Lateralis, Inferior Rectus, Inferior Rectus Muscle, Rectus Inferior, Medial Rectus, Medial Rectus Muscle, Rectus Medialis, Rectus Superior, Superior Rectus, Superior Rectus Muscle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ocular Muscle
Literary usage of Ocular muscle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1891)
"PSYCHOLOGICAL LITERATURE. occurred before birth, both the intra-ocular and the
extra-ocular muscle- groupings, as a rule, remain unaffected both as to ..."
2. Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society Annual Meeting by American Ophthalmological Society (1908)
"A SIMPLE METHOD OF REPRESENTING DIFFERENT FORMS OF ocular muscle IMBALANCE BY
DIAGRAM. BY DR. LUCIEN HOWE, BUFFALO. In order to discuss intelligently a ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1890)
"Extra-ocular muscle innervation seemingly proper in the vast majority of cases,
... Extra-ocular muscle action apparently intact in all directions, ..."
4. Visual Economics, with Rules for Estimation of the Earning Ability After by Hugo Magnus (1902)
"Therefore, if both eyes are functional and the act of vision was binocular, a
paralysis of one ocular muscle should be regarded from an economic standpoint ..."
5. Medical Ophthalmology by Arnold Herman Knapp (1918)
"ocular muscle paralyses are not infrequently the only manifestations of orbital
complications. In a case of grippe with ethmoidal involvement which came ..."