INFERIOR RECTUS MUSCLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inferior rectus muscle mean? 

• INFERIOR RECTUS MUSCLE (noun)
  The noun INFERIOR RECTUS MUSCLE has 1 sense:

1. the ocular muscle whose contraction turns the eyeball down and medially

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• INFERIOR RECTUS MUSCLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The ocular muscle whose contraction turns the eyeball down and medially

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

inferior rectus; inferior rectus muscle; rectus inferior

Hypernyms ("inferior rectus muscle" is a kind of...):

eye muscle; ocular muscle (one of the small muscles of the eye that serve to rotate the eyeball)

 Context examples 

It is caused by the inadvertent scarring down of the middle portion of the inferior oblique muscle at or near the insertion of the inferior rectus muscle.

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