LATERAL RECTUS MUSCLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lateral rectus muscle mean? 

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

1. the ocular muscle whose contraction turns the eyeball outward

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LATERAL RECTUS MUSCLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The ocular muscle whose contraction turns the eyeball outward

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

abducens muscle; lateral rectus; lateral rectus muscle; rectus lateralis

Hypernyms ("lateral 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 

An exotropia occurs due to the relatively unopposed force exerted on the eye by the lateral rectus muscle, which pulls the eye in an outward direction.

(Divergent Strabismus, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A cranial nerve that supplies motor impulses to the lateral rectus muscle of the eye.

(Abducens Nerve, NCI Thesaurus)