obliquusn.
/ə(ʊ)ˈblɪkwəs/, U.S. /əˈblɪkwəs/, /oʊˈblɪkwəs/ Anatomy.
More fully obliquus muscle. An oblique muscle. Also with distinguishing word.
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sphincter1578
raiser1588
in-muscle?1609
oblique1612
abducens1615
abductor1615
adductor1615
antagonist1615
bender1615
depressor1615
extender1615
flexor1615
levator1615
quadratus1615
rectus1615
retractor1615
sphincter-muscle1615
accelerator1638
bicepsa1641
elevator1646
adducent1649
lifter1649
rotator1657
flector1666
contractor1682
dilater1683
orbicularis palpebrarum1694
transverse muscle1696
tensor muscle1704
biventer1706
extensor1713
attollent1728
constrictor1741
dilator1741
risibles1785
orbicularis oculi1797
obliquus1799
erector1828
extensor-muscle1830
compressor1836
trans-muscle1836
antagonizer1844
motor1846
evertor1848
inflector1851
protractor1853
prime mover1860
orbicular1872
transversalis1872
invertor1875
skeletal muscle1877
dilatator1878
occlusor muscle1878
sphincter1879
pilomotor1892
agonist1896
1799 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 90 9 The largest of these is called the obliquus, and is the antagonist of the tensor muscle.
1823 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 113 297 The nerves which move the eyelids, and the nerve of the obliquus muscle of the eye-ball, are associated at their roots.
1862 Gray's Anat. (U.S. ed. 2) 566 It supplies the Recti and Obliqui muscles.
1898 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 190 68 A certain amount of individual variation occurs, especially with regard to the superior obliquus muscle.
1930 H. G. Newth Marshall & Hurst's Junior Course Pract. Zool. (ed. 11) xii. 278 Press the eye-muscles aside to see the optic nerve between the recti and obliqui.
1980 Gray's Anat. (ed. 36) v. 557/1 The rectus abdominis is enclosed between the aponeuroses of the obliqui and transversus.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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