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Lateral rectus muscle structure

Known as: M. rectus lateralis, Lateral rectus, Musculus rectus lateralis 
A muscle attaching to the lateral surface of the orbit that abducts the eye.
National Institutes of Health

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Abducens nerve structureHead and neck structureMuscle of orbitMusculoskeletal System

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Left lateral rectusRight lateral rectus

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2009
2009
Treating strabismus by injecting the agonist muscle with bupivacaine and the antagonist with botulinum toxin.
PURPOSE We report the results of injection of bupivacaine (BUP) and botulinum toxin (BT) into agonist and antagonist muscles… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Effects of botulinum neurotoxin type A on abducens motoneurons in the cat: ultrastructural and synaptic alterations
1997
1997
Effects of botulinum neurotoxin type A on abducens motoneurons in the cat: alterations of the discharge pattern
1995
1995
Lateral rectus emg and contractile responses elicited by cat abducens motoneurons
Stimulation of 41 single, abducens nucleus motoneurons in the cat evoked electromyographic (EMG) and contractile responses in the… 
1993
1993
Episodic exotropia from lateral rectus neuromyotonia--appearance and remission after radiation therapy for a thalamic glioma.
Sixteen months after radiation therapy for a moderately anaplastic astrocytoma of the thalamus, a 7-year-old boy developed… 
1987
1987
KINAESTHETIC AND MOTOR EFFECTS OF EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE VIBRATION IN MAN
Highly Cited
1981
Highly Cited
1981
Localization of retractor bulbi motoneurons in the rabbit
1979
1979
Horizontal canal input to cat extraocular motoneurons
1976
1976
Anterior segment ischemia following the Jensen procedure.
• Anterior segment ischemia occurred in a 66-year-old patient following recession of one medial rectus muscle combined with… 
1955
1955
The nature of vergence revealed by electromyography.
In a previous publication innervational aspects of convergence and divergence revealed by electromyography were described… 
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