Usually means: Straight muscle, typically in abdomen.
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  1. rectus: Merriam-Webster
  2. rectus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rectus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. rectus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. rectus: Vocabulary.com
  6. Rectus, rectus: Wordnik
  7. rectus: Wiktionary
  8. rectus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. rectus: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. rectus: Dictionary.com
  11. Rectus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Rectus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. rectus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. rectus: Rhymezone
  15. Rectus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. rectus: FreeDictionary.org
  17. rectus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. rectus: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. rectus: Legal dictionary

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  1. rectus: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. rectus: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Rectus: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  5. rectus: Medical dictionary
  6. Rectus: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rectus: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rectus: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See recti as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (rectus)

noun:  (anatomy) Any of a number of muscles controlling the movement of the eyeball.
noun:  (anatomy) Any of several straight muscles in various parts of the body, as of the abdomen, thigh, eye etc. [(anatomy) A paired muscle running vertically on each side of the anterior wall of the abdomen in humans and some other mammals.]
noun:  (anatomy) Ellipsis of rectus abdominis. [(anatomy) A paired muscle running vertically on each side of the anterior wall of the abdomen in humans and some other mammals.]

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