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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… 
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Head and neck structureMuscle of orbitMusculoskeletal SystemOcular orbit

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Left medial rectusRight medial rectus

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2004
2004
Blindness and rectus muscle damage following spinal surgery.
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Rectus extraocular muscle paths and decompression surgery for Graves orbitopathy: mechanism of motility disturbances.
PURPOSE To study possible causes of motility disturbances that may result from orbital decompression surgery in patients with… 
1998
1998
Localization of parvalbumin, calretinin, and calbindin D‐28k in identified extraocular motoneurons and internuclear neurons of the cat
Calcium‐binding proteins have been shown to be excellent markers of specific neuronal populations. We aimed to characterize the… 
1994
1994
Effects of target depletion on adult mammalian central neurons: Morphological correlates
1992
1992
Role of GABA in the extraocular motor nuclei of the cat: A postembedding immunocytochemical study
Highly Cited
1981
Highly Cited
1981
Cat medial pontine reticular neurons related to vestibular nystagmus: Firing pattern, location and projection
Highly Cited
1981
Highly Cited
1981
Localization of retractor bulbi motoneurons in the rabbit
Highly Cited
1980
Highly Cited
1980
Experimental strabismus in the kitten.
1. We have examined the relative roles of visual and nonvisual input to striate cortex cells in causing the breakdown of… 
Review
1979
Review
1979
Medial rectus injury from intranasal surgery.
Severe medial rectus injury occurred in two cases following intranasal sinus surgery. In the first case a scarred medial rectus… 
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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