trochlear

Shaped like, or resembling, a pulley; related to, or connected with, a trochlea.

Adjective

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

Origin

From trochlea + -ar.

Forms

trochleary

Derived

epitrochlear infratrochlear intertrochlear intratrochlear paratrochlear supratrochlear trochlear nerve trochlear notch ulnotrochlear

Noun

  1. 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,...
    • 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. -...

Forms

trochlears trochleary