trochlear

alternative trochleary

1. not comparableanatomyShaped like, or resembling, a pulley; related to, or connected with, a trochlea.

   Synonyms: pathetic

2. not comparableanatomyOf or pertaining to the trochlear nerve.

plural trochlears · alternative trochleary

1. anatomyA 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

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   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

   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