Rectus meaning

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Any of various straight muscles, as of the abdomen, eye, neck, and thigh.
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Any of various straight muscles, as of the eye, neck, or thigh.
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Any of various straight muscles, as of the abdomen, eye, neck, and thigh.
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(anatomy) Any of several straight muscles in various parts of the body, as of the abdomen, thigh, eye etc.
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Origin of rectus

  • New Latin (mūsculus) rēctus from Latin straight (muscle) rectum
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • From the Latin phrase "(musculus) rectus", or "a straight (muscle)".
    From Wiktionary
  • Rectus therefore means straight in Latin.
    From Wiktionary

Rectus Sentence Examples

  • Both are supplied by the abducens nerve, together with the rectus externus muscle.

  • Birgus dispenses with a covering; Coenobita can make shift with half the shell of a coco-nut; Chlaenopagurus wraps itself up in a blanket of colonial polyps; Cancellus tanneri, Faxon, was found in a piece of dead coral rock; Xylopagurus rectus, A.

  • The rectus sheath or external oblique aponeurosis was clearly exposed around the circumference of the defect.

  • Associated soft tissue defects were repaired using radial forearm (n = 22) or rectus abdominis (n= 5) free flaps.

  • midline hernias the lateral leaf of the rectus sheath was then elevated from the underlying muscle.

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