OCULAR MUSCLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ocular muscle mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• OCULAR 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 ("ocular muscle" is a kind of...):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ocular 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 ("ocular muscle" is a part of...):

eye; oculus; optic (the organ of sight)

 Context examples 

The bony cavity of the skull which contains the eye, anterior portion of the optic nerve, ocular muscles and ocular adnexa.

(Murine Orbit, NCI Thesaurus)

May also have ocular muscle weakness.

(Myasthenia Class II, NCI Thesaurus)

Severe weakness affecting non-ocular muscles.

(Myasthenia Class IV, NCI Thesaurus)

Moderate weakness affecting non-ocular muscles.

(Myasthenia Class III, NCI Thesaurus)

Mild weakness affecting non-ocular muscles.

(Myasthenia Class II, NCI Thesaurus)