LATERAL RECTUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lateral rectus mean? 

• LATERAL RECTUS (noun)
  The noun LATERAL RECTUS has 1 sense:

1. the ocular muscle whose contraction turns the eyeball outward

  Familiarity information: LATERAL RECTUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LATERAL RECTUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The ocular muscle whose contraction turns the eyeball outward

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

abducens muscle; lateral rectus; lateral rectus muscle; rectus lateralis

Hypernyms ("lateral rectus" is a kind of...):

eye muscle; ocular muscle (one of the small muscles of the eye that serve to rotate the eyeball)

 Context examples 

A cranial nerve that supplies motor impulses to the lateral rectus muscle of the eye.

(Abducens Nerve, NCI Thesaurus)

An exotropia occurs due to the relatively unopposed force exerted on the eye by the lateral rectus muscle, which pulls the eye in an outward direction.

(Divergent Strabismus, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The abducens nerve originates in the abducens nucleus of the pons and sends motor fibers to the lateral rectus muscles of the eye.

(Abducens Nerve, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)