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Definition of Rectus inferior
1. Noun. The ocular muscle whose contraction turns the eyeball down and medially.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rectus Inferior
Literary usage of Rectus inferior
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 almost immediately divides into three branches, for the supply of the rectus
medialis, the rectus inferior, and the obliquus inferior. ..."
2. Journal of Morphology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1903)
"The ventral portion of the inferior division of the nervus runs downward, posterior
to the rectus inferior, and then forward ventral to that muscle, ..."
3. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1893)
"The rectus externus acting alone would turn the eye to the malar side, the internus
to the nasal side, the rectus superior upward, the rectus inferior ..."
4. A Text-book of Physiology for Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1911)
"Rotation of the eyeballs around oblique axes require the co-operation of three
of the muscles : movements upward and outward—the superior rectus, inferior ..."
5. A Text-book of Physiology for Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1911)
"Rotation of the eyeballs around oblique axes require the co-operation of three
of the muscles : movements upward and outward—the superior rectus, inferior ..."
6. A Text-book of physiology by Michael Foster (1891)
"rectus inferior and internus with obliquus superior. Rectus superior and externus
with obliquus inferior. rectus inferior and externus with obliquus ..."
7. A text book of physiology by Michael Foster (1879)
"wards, the rectus inferior downwards, the oblique superior downwards and outwards,
and the inferior upwards and outwards. The recti superior and inferior in ..."
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