trochlear
nounEtymology From trochlea + -ar.
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Anatomy, Medicine, Neuroanatomy, Neurology, Neuroscience, Sciences A trochlear muscle or nerve.
- The two trochlears decussate in the anterior medullary velum.1949, Herbert Eugene Walter, Leonard Perkins Sayles, Biology of the Vertebrates: A Comparative Study of Man and His Animal Allies, page 741:
- At 90° of flexion, the patella enters the condylar fossa, where the contact areas are on both the lateral and medial trochlears of the femur.2014, Joanne K. Singleton, Robert V. DiGregorio, Carol Green-Hernandez, Primary Care, Second Edition: An Interprofessional Perspective, →ISBN, page 593:
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- Using three-dimensional printing, they replaced the native trochlear in four cadaveric knees with dysplastic trochlears and then subjected them to squat simulation, open chain extension, and a patella stability test.2017, W. Norman Scott, Insall & Scott Surgery of the Knee, 6th edition, →ISBN, page 917: