ocular muscle

Questions about ocular muscle

What does ocular muscle mean?

ocular muscle means "one of the small muscles of the eye that serve to rotate the eyeball".

What is another word for ocular muscle?

Close synonyms include eye muscle. 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 ocular muscle a common word?

ocular muscle 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.