rectus inferior

1. 1.

   the ocular muscle whose contraction turns the eyeball down and medially

   Synonymsinferior rectus muscleinferior rectus

   Broaderocular muscle

Questions about rectus inferior

What does rectus inferior mean?

rectus inferior means "the ocular muscle whose contraction turns the eyeball down and medially".

What is another word for rectus inferior?

Close synonyms include inferior rectus muscle, inferior rectus. 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 rectus inferior a common word?

rectus inferior 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.