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OCULAR MUSCLE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

One of the small muscles of the eye that serve to rotate the eyeball

Synonyms:

eye muscle; ocular muscle

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Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("ocular muscle" is a kind of...):

muscle; musculus (one of the contractile organs of the body)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ocular muscle"):

abducens muscle; lateral rectus; lateral rectus muscle; rectus lateralis (the ocular muscle whose contraction turns the eyeball outward)

inferior rectus; inferior rectus muscle; rectus inferior (the ocular muscle whose contraction turns the eyeball down and medially)

medial rectus; medial rectus muscle; rectus medialis (the ocular muscle whose contraction turns the eyeball medially)

rectus superior; superior rectus; superior rectus muscle (the ocular muscle whose contraction turns the eyeball upward and medially)

Holonyms ("ocular muscle" is a part of...):

eye; oculus; optic (the organ of sight)

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