trochlear

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Etymology

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From trochlea +‎ -ar.

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trochlear (not comparable)

  1. (anatomy) Shaped like, or resembling, a pulley; related to, or connected with, a trochlea.
  2. (neuroanatomy) Of or pertaining to the trochlear nerve.

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Noun

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trochlear (plural trochlears)

  1. (anatomy, neuroanatomy) A trochlear muscle or nerve.
    • 1949, Herbert Eugene Walter, Leonard Perkins Sayles, Biology of the Vertebrates: A Comparative Study of Man and His Animal Allies[1], page 741:
      The two trochlears decussate in the anterior medullary velum.
    • 2014, Joanne K. Singleton, Robert V. DiGregorio, Carol Green-Hernandez, Primary Care, Second Edition: An Interprofessional Perspective[2], →ISBN, page 593:
      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.
    • 2017, W. Norman Scott, Insall & Scott Surgery of the Knee[3], 6th edition, →ISBN, page 917:
      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.

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