Medial rectus muscle structure

Known as: Medial rectus muscle, Medial rectus, M. rectus medialis 
One of the extraoculomotor muscles arising from a common tendinous ring in the posterior part of the orbit with insertion on the medial surface of… (More)
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Head and neck structureMusculoskeletal SystemOcular orbit

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Left medial rectusRight medial rectus

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Muscle of orbit

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Medial rectus muscle structure
Head and neck structure
Ocular orbit
Muscle of orbit
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Left medial rectus

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2002
2002
Missing lateral rectus force and absence of medial rectus co-contraction in ocular convergence.
For a given position of the eye in the orbit, most abducens motoneurons (LRMNs) fire at higher rates in converged gaze than when… (More)
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1998
Highly Cited
1998
Heterotopic muscle pulleys or oblique muscle dysfunction?
INTRODUCTION The description of connective tissue sleeves that function as pulleys for the rectus extraocular muscles (EOMs… (More)
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1998
1998
Displacement of the medial rectus pulley in superior oblique palsy.
PURPOSE The rectus extraocular muscles pass through fibromuscular connective tissue pulleys that stabilize muscle paths and… (More)
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1996
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1996
Utriculoocular reflex arc of the cat.
1. Intracellular recordings of synaptic potentials in extraocular motoneurons were studied to determine the connectivities… (More)
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1992
Highly Cited
1992
Characteristics of near response cells projecting to the oculomotor nucleus.
1. Previous work has shown neurons just dorsal and lateral to the oculomotor nucleus that increase their firing rate with… (More)
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1992
Highly Cited
1992
Saccade-vergence interactions in humans.
1. We recorded eye movements in four normal human subjects during refixations between targets calling for various combinations of… (More)
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1986
Highly Cited
1986
Afferents to the abducens nucleus in the monkey and cat.
The abducens nucleus is a central coordinating element in the generation of conjugate horizontal eye movements. As such, it… (More)
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1984
Highly Cited
1984
Neural control of vergence eye movements: convergence and divergence neurons in midbrain.
Animals with binocular single vision use disjunctive (vergence) eye movements to align the two eyes on a visual target. Several… (More)
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1983
Highly Cited
1983
Afferent and efferent connections of the medial, inferior and lateral vestibular nuclei in the cat and monkey.
Attempts were made to determine the afferent and efferent connections of the medial (MVN), inferior (IVN) and lateral (LVN… (More)
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1978
Highly Cited
1978
Saccadic system plasticity in humans.
A subject with a medial rectus paresis secondary to a partial third nerve palsy was forced to use the affected eye for six days… (More)
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