trochlear — English Dictionary

Adjective

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

   Usage

   • not-comparable

2. Of or pertaining to the trochlear nerve.

   Usage

   • not-comparable

Noun

1. A trochlear muscle or nerve.

   Examples

   The two trochlears decussate in the anterior medullary velum.

   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.

   More examples (1)

   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.

Noun

1. either of the two cranial nerves on either side that control the superior oblique muscles of the eyes

   Synonyms

   trochlear nervetrochlearisfourth cranial nerve

   Broader terms

   cranial nerve