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Definition of Rectus superior
1. Noun. The ocular muscle whose contraction turns the eyeball upward and medially.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rectus Superior
Literary usage of Rectus superior
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1893)
"The rectus superior and the reclus inferior rotate the eye round a horizontal
axis, which is directed from the upper end of the nose to the temple ..."
2. A Text-book of physiology by Michael Foster (1891)
"О о Rectus internus. Rectus externus. rectus superior and internus with ...
rectus superior and externus with obliquus inferior. ..."
3. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"The Rectus medialis is the broadest, the Rectus lateralis the longest, and the
rectus superior the thinnest and narrowest. The Obliquus oculi superior ..."
4. A text book of physiology by Michael Foster (1879)
"rectus superior and internus with obliquus inferior. Rectus inferior and internus
with obliquus superior. rectus superior and externus with obliquus ..."
5. Textbook of human physiology by Leonard Landois, William Stirling (1889)
"Outward and ' т j ( Rectus internus. л. , , ( Rectus externus. upward. . .
1 ^i ,- - r * downward. , /\LI- - i , i rectus superior. , , i Ke^tus inferior. ..."
6. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray, Henry Vandyke Carter, Luther Holden (1878)
"rectus superior. Rectus Externus. Rectus Inferior. ... The rectus superior, the
thinnest and narrowest of the four Recti, arises from the upper margin of ..."
7. A Text-book of physiology: For Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1905)
"... movements downward and outward—inferior rectus, superior oblique, and external
rectus; movements downward and inward—inferior rectus, superior oblique, ..."
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