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Definition of Superior rectus muscle
1. Noun. The ocular muscle whose contraction turns the eyeball upward and medially.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Superior Rectus Muscle
Literary usage of Superior rectus muscle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Course in Vertebrate Zoölogy: A Guide to the Dissection and Comparative by Henry Sherring Pratt (1905)
"Dorsal to the external rectus and separated from it by the head of the retractor
muscle just mentioned is the superior rectus muscle, which arises in the ..."
2. A Course in Vertebrate Zoölogy: A Guide to the Dissection and Comparative by Henry Sherring Pratt (1905)
"Dorsal to the external rectus and separated from it by the head of the retractor
muscle just mentioned is the superior rectus muscle, which arises in the ..."
3. An Elementary Treatise on Human Anatomy by Joseph Leidy (1889)
"... 2, the trochlear muscle; 3, the pulley through which the tendon of Insertion
plays; 4, superior rectus muscle; 5, inferior rectus muscle; 6, ..."
4. A Course in Vertebrate Zoölogy: A Guide to the Dissection and Comparative by Henry Sherring Pratt (1905)
"Dorsal to the external rectus and separated from it by the head of the retractor
muscle just mentioned is the superior rectus muscle, which arises in the ..."
5. The Eye in Its Relation to Health by Chalmers Prentice (1895)
"... superior rectus muscle EYE MUSCLES. 1. Ciliary muscle (within the ball). 4.
Superior rectus. a. Internal rectus. 5. Inferior rectus. 3. External rectus. ..."
6. A Manual of Dissection and Practical Anatomy: Founded on Gray and Gerrish by William Thomas Eckley, Corinne Buford Eckley (1903)
"... (3) by the location on the superior rectus muscle. Cut this muscle in the
middle and expose the superior rectus beneath. Superior Rectus. ..."
7. The anatomist's vade mecum: a system of human anatomy by Erasmus Wilson (1845)
"... passes forwards to the pulley beneath the internal angular process of the
frontal bone ; its tendon is then reflected beneath the superior rectus muscle ..."
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