medial rectus

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   the ocular muscle whose contraction turns the eyeball medially

   Synonymsmedial rectus musclerectus medialis

   Broaderocular muscle

Questions about medial rectus

What does medial rectus mean?

medial rectus means "the ocular muscle whose contraction turns the eyeball medially".

What is another word for medial rectus?

Close synonyms include medial rectus muscle, rectus medialis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is medial rectus a common word?

medial rectus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.