Definition of Oculi

1. Noun. (plural of oculus) ¹

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Definition of Oculi

1. oculus [n] - See also: oculus

Medical Definition of Oculi

1. Plural of oculus. Origin: L. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Oculi

ocular tension
ocular torticollis
ocular vertigo
ocularcentrism
ocularist
ocularists
ocularly
oculars
oculary
oculate
oculated
oculentum
oculesic
oculesics
oculi (current term)
oculiform
oculina
oculinacea
oculist
oculists
oculo-
oculoauriculovertebral
oculoauriculovertebral dysplasia
oculocardiac
oculocardiac reflex
oculocephalic reflex
oculocephalogyric reflex
oculocerebrorenal

Literary usage of Oculi

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

1. Lombard Architecture by Arthur Kingsley Porter (1917)
"Circular windows or oculi were very popular, especially in the XII century.2 Circular oculi with crude tracery were built at Vaprio d'Adda—c. ..."

2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1875)
"Paralysis of the motor oculi terminations by atropine does not prevent the contraction, nor does section of the same, or in fact destruction of all ocular ..."

3. Cunningham's Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham, Arthur Robinson (1914)
"BULBUS oculi. THE bulbus oculi or eyeball is not perfectly spherical. Indeed, it may be said to be composed of the segments of two spheres; and the anterior ..."

4. A Text-book of Human Physiology by Austin Flint (1888)
"MOTOR oculi EXTERNUS, OR ... the motor oculi externus is distributed to ... 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) ; 8. motor oculi . , , , ..."

5. A Practical treatise on the diseases of the eye by William Mackenzie, Thomas Wharton Jones (1855)
"TETANUS oculi. A fixed state of the eyeball, from tonic spasm of all, or several, of the recti, is styled tetanus oculi. The state of the eyes and eyelids ..."

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