trochlear

From Latin trochlea (“block or pulley”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɒklɪə(ɹ)/

trochlear (not comparable)

1. (anatomy) Shaped like, or resembling, a pulley; related to, or connected with, a trochlea.

• trochlear nerve

trochlear (plural trochlears)

1. (anatomy) A trochlear muscle or nerve.
   • 1949, Herbert Eugene Walter & ‎Leonard Perkins Sayles, Biology of the Vertebrates:

     The two trochlears decussate in the anterior medullary velum.

   • 2014, Joanne K. Singleton, ‎Robert V. DiGregorio, & ‎Carol Green-Hernandez, Primary Care, Second Edition: An Interprofessional Perspective, →ISBN:

     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.

   • 2017, W. Norman Scott, Insall & Scott Surgery of the Knee, →ISBN:

     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.

• trochlear in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• trochlear in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• trochlear at OneLook Dictionary Search