EYE MUSCLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eye muscle mean? 

• EYE MUSCLE (noun)
  The noun EYE MUSCLE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: EYE MUSCLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EYE MUSCLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of the small muscles of the eye that serve to rotate the eyeball

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

eye muscle; ocular muscle

Hypernyms ("eye muscle" is a kind of...):

muscle; musculus (one of the contractile organs of the body)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "eye muscle"):

abducens muscle; lateral rectus; lateral rectus muscle; rectus lateralis (the ocular muscle whose contraction turns the eyeball outward)

inferior rectus; inferior rectus muscle; rectus inferior (the ocular muscle whose contraction turns the eyeball down and medially)

medial rectus; medial rectus muscle; rectus medialis (the ocular muscle whose contraction turns the eyeball medially)

rectus superior; superior rectus; superior rectus muscle (the ocular muscle whose contraction turns the eyeball upward and medially)

Holonyms ("eye muscle" is a part of...):

eye; oculus; optic (the organ of sight)

 Context examples 

A reduction in the strength of the eye muscles.

(Eye Muscle Weakness, NCI Thesaurus)

Treatments include glasses, eye muscle exercises, and surgery.

(Eye Movement Disorders, NIH)

It is characterized by an abnormal contraction of some eye muscles and failure of contraction of other eye muscles.

(Duane Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)