crural
Americanadjective
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of or relating to the leg or the hind limb.
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Anatomy, Zoology. of or relating to the leg proper, or crus.
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of crural
1590–1600; < Latin crūrālis belonging to the legs, equivalent to crūr- (stem of crūs ) leg + -ālis -al 1
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In some nervous subjects that seem to be suffering from cramp of the crural muscles, the difficulty and pain of their being backed out of narrow stalls, accentuates the nervousness.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by John Victor Lacroix
Do you want me to describe more branches of the sciatic and crural nerves?
From Medical Essays, 1842-1882 by Oliver Wendell Holmes
In what direction is the crural arch to be divided?
From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Joseph Bell
After the animal has been killed the hind limbs are detached and skinned; the crural nerves and their attachments to the lumbar vertebrae remaining.
From its long recubation, it had become divested of its bark, foliage, and smaller branches; leaving only its knarled trunk and concomitant adjuncts, its crural like limbs.
From Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter by Colin Munro
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