Inferior Rectus (Noun)
Meaning
The ocular muscle whose contraction turns the eyeball down and medially.
Classification
Nouns denoting body parts.
Examples
- The inferior rectus muscle in the human eye works to depress and rotate the eyeball medially.
- A branch of the oculomotor nerve controls the movements of the inferior rectus.
- Eye exams should always evaluate the strength of the inferior rectus and its companion ocular muscles.
- It has been suggested that unilateral damage to the inferior rectus might produce different levels of horizontal gaze misalignment in subjects with divergence.
- Difficulty with certain voluntary actions requiring extra-ocular movements involving the inferior rectus are easily reported as defective movement when action taken appears constrained in cases examined so far.