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Definition of Lateral rectus muscle

1. Noun. The ocular muscle whose contraction turns the eyeball outward.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lateral Rectus Muscle

Literary usage of Lateral rectus muscle

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cunningham's Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham, Arthur Robinson (1914)
"It enters the orbit through the narrow interval between the heads of lateral rectus muscle, and it supplies the lateral rectus only. ..."

2. Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham (1921)
"enters the orbit through the interval between the heads of lateral rectus muscle, and it supplies the lateral rectus only. Musculus Obliquus Inferior. ..."

3. Outlines of Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates by John Sterling Kingsley (1917)
"The abducens nerve comes from the inferior surface of the medulla and supplies the lateral rectus muscle. In most vertebrates these nerves are readily ..."

4. Anatomy of the Cat by Jacob Ellsworth Reighard, Herbert Spencer Jennings (1901)
"... along the medial surface of the lateral rectus muscle (Fig. 154, k). At about the middle of the length of the muscle it divides into two or three ..."

5. A Text-book of Histology: Arranged Upon an Embryological Basis by Frederic Thomas Lewis, Philipp Stöhr (1913)
"The abducent nene is wholly a ventral root, and its fibers all pass to the lateral rectus muscle, which abducts the eye-ball (ie, turns it outward). ..."

6. A Course in Vertebrate Zoölogy: A Guide to the Dissection and Comparative by Henry Sherring Pratt (1905)
"Springing from the medulla medial to the trapezium is the sixth pair of cranial nerves, the abducens, which pass to the lateral rectus muscle of the eyeball ..."

7. The Anatomy of the human skeleton by Henry Morris, John Ernest Frazer (1914)
"Near the middle of the border is a small tubercle for the origin of the lower head of the lateral rectus muscle. The pterygoid processes project downward ..."

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