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  • noun Plural form of rectus.

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Examples

  • And Elise Gulan reminds all women that you need to see your doc before you start a real fitness plan of any kind, and one of the things she should check for is diastasis recti stretching of the midline of the ab muscles.

    The Mommy Diet Alison J. Sweeney 2011

  • And Elise Gulan reminds all women that you need to see your doc before you start a real fitness plan of any kind, and one of the things she should check for is diastasis recti stretching of the midline of the ab muscles.

    The Mommy Diet Alison J. Sweeney 2011

  • Use they not, our noesmall termtraders, to abhors offrom him, the yet unregendered thunderslog, whose sbrogue cunneth none lordmade undersiding, how betwixt wifely rule and mens conscia recti, then hemale man all unbracing to omniwomen, but now shedropping his hitches like any maidavale oppersite orse-riders in an idinhole?

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • The studes in opthalmology had chopped his inferior oblique eye-muscles in two—and pulled his eyeballs partway out, and stitched his superior recti muscles into new places outward on his eyeballs—for cyclophoria.

    Archive 2005-12-01 Jenny Davidson 2005

  • The studes in opthalmology had chopped his inferior oblique eye-muscles in two—and pulled his eyeballs partway out, and stitched his superior recti muscles into new places outward on his eyeballs—for cyclophoria.

    Sherlock Holmes on acid Jenny Davidson 2005

  • The intense flash of heat had, hi the ME's words, 'burned through the orb, the external and internal recti, the optic nerve, the lesser wing, the sphenoid'.

    The White Ninja Lustbader, Eric 1990

  • Excisio recti (Excision of the rectum) preparatory excision of the coccyx was introduced, which had been initiated by Kraske, and Kocher took this step further and also removed a piece of the sacrum (1874).

    Theodor Kocher - Biography 1967

  • * Nam et prophetare et daemonia excludere et virtutes magnas in terris facere sublimis utique et admirabilis res est, non tamen regnum coeleste consequitur quisquis in his omnibus invenitur, nisi recti et justi itineris observatione gradiatur.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • Here, where the privates of a regiment hold a mass meeting and discuss for hours an order to advance to the relief of sorely pressed comrades and decide not to obey it, and eventually throw down their rifles and with a meus conscia recti, proudly run away, we have Democracy with a vengeance.

    Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy

  • "Mens conscia recti" will support us under many trials; but it does not furnish armor of proof against the "poor man's scorn, the proud man's contumely."

    The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner John Wilkinson

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