RECTUS
\ɹˈɛktəs], \ɹˈɛktəs], \ɹ_ˈɛ_k_t_ə_s]\
Definitions of RECTUS
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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By William R. Warner
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In bot., applied to the stem and other straight parts of plants; in anat., a name for several muscles of the body, on account of the rectilinear direction of their fibres.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
By Robley Dunglison
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