MEDIAL RECTUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does medial rectus mean? 

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

1. the ocular muscle whose contraction turns the eyeball medially

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEDIAL RECTUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The ocular muscle whose contraction turns the eyeball medially

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

medial rectus; medial rectus muscle; rectus medialis

Hypernyms ("medial 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 

For example, medial rectus muscle weakness may produce this condition as the affected eye will deviate laterally upon attempted forward gaze.

(Divergent Strabismus, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)