Definition of Poplitei

1. popliteus [n] - See also: popliteus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Poplitei

popjoy
popjoyed
popjoying
popjoys
poplar
poplar tree
poplarlike
poplars
poplexy
poplike
poplin
poplins
popliteal
popliteal artery
popliteal vein
poplitei (current term)
popliteus
poplitic
popo
popodom
popos
popout
popouts
popover
popovers
poppa
poppable
poppadom
poppadoms
poppadum

Literary usage of Poplitei

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Manual of Dissection and Practical Anatomy: Founded on Gray and Gerrish by William Thomas Eckley, Corinne Buford Eckley (1903)
"Communicans poplitei, to short saphenous. |. The posterior tibial and its branches. f Articular, to knee-joint. | Cutaneous branches, to leg. >? ..."

2. Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray, Thomas Pickering Pick (1897)
"The communicans poplitei descends between the two heads of the Gastrocnemius muscle, and about the middle of the back of the leg pierces the deep fascia, ..."

3. Surgery, Its Principles and Practice by William Williams Keen (1909)
"... poplitei nerve, which helps form the external saphenous nerve (Fig. 282). Divide the deep fascia. Expose the inner and outer heads of the gastrocnemius ..."

4. Practical Dissections by Richard Manning Hodges (1858)
"... called the communicans poplitei, and the two, uniting, constitute the external saphenous nerve. The popliteal nerve lies superficial to the artery, and, ..."

5. Practical Dissections by Richard Manning Hodges (1858)
"... poplitei, and the two, uniting, constitute the external saphenous nerve. The popliteal nerve liep superficial to the artery, and, at the lower border of ..."

6. The anatomist's vade mecum: a system of human anatomy by Erasmus Wilson (1845)
"The Communicans poplitei (communicans tibialis) is a large nerve which arises from the popliteal at about the middle of its course, and descends between the ..."

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