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
Other Word Forms
- intercrural adjective
- postcrural adjective
- precrural adjective
Etymology
Origin of crural
1590–1600; < Latin crūrālis belonging to the legs, equivalent to crūr- (stem of crūs ) leg + -ālis -al 1
Example Sentences
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Such cases may be styled momentary luxation, whether they are due to a weakened condition of the patellar ligaments or spasmodic contraction of the crural muscles.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by Lacroix, John Victor
The knuckling which results from long continued inactivity of the crural muscles in chronic cases is marked in this instance.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by Lacroix, John Victor
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 Munro, Colin
For Umbilical Rupture.—The principle involved in Mr. Wood's operation for umbilical rupture is precisely the same as for inguinal and crural.
From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Bell, Joseph
The Crural Plexus is divided into a crural, ischiadic and pubic portion.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various
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