Definition of Ocular muscle

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


Lexicographical Neighbors of Ocular Muscle

ocular dysmetria
ocular flutter
ocular humor
ocular hypertelorism
ocular hypertension
ocular hypotension
ocular larva migrans
ocular lens
ocular lymphomatosis
ocular micrometer
ocular micrometers
ocular migraine
ocular motility disorders
ocular motor
ocular muscle (current term)
ocular muscles
ocular myiasis
ocular myopathy
ocular nystagmus
ocular onchocerciasis
ocular paralysis
ocular pemphigoid
ocular physiology
ocular prosthesis
ocular rigidity
ocular scoliosis
ocular sparganosis
ocular tension
ocular torticollis

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 ..."

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