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(anatomy) Shaped like, or resembling, a pulley; related to, or connected with, a trochlea. examples
(neuroanatomy) Of or pertaining to the trochlear nerve. examples
plural trochlears
(anatomy, neuroanatomy) A trochlear muscle or nerve. quotations examples
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, 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, page 917