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Definition of Crural
1. Adjective. Of or relating the leg from the knee to the foot.
Definition of Crural
1. a. Of or pertaining to the thigh or leg, or to any of the parts called crura; as, the crural arteries; crural arch; crural canal; crural ring.
Definition of Crural
1. Adjective. (chiefly anatomy) Pertaining to the leg. ¹
2. Adjective. Leg-like in shape or constitution. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Crural
1. pertaining to the thigh or leg [adj]
Medical Definition of Crural
1. Relating to the leg or thigh, or to any crus. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crural
Literary usage of Crural
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Medical Lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science : Containing a Concise by Robley Dunglison (1868)
"What belongs to tha thigh or lower limb. crural, Triceps cruris. ... It extends
from the crural arch to the aperture in the triceps, or to the ham. ..."
2. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"This canal has two orifices—an upper one, the femoral or crural ring, closed by
the septum crurale ; and a lower one, the saphenous opening, closed by the ..."
3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1913)
"775 Primary, or Idiopathic Anterior crural Neuritis 777 If the word ... The anterior
crural (femoral) nerve is the largest arising from the lumbar plexus, ..."
4. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical: Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1897)
"The Deep crural Arch.—Passing across the front of the crural arch, on the abdominal
side of ... is a thickened band of fibres called the deep crural arch. ..."
5. Cunningham's Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham, Arthur Robinson (1914)
"A lateral crural region, which includes the parts in relation to the ...
A posterior crural region, in which are placed the parts, on the back of the leg, ..."
6. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1819)
"One object of his publication is to show, that the ligament of Gimbernat, or
rather the crural arch, is totally unconnected with that of Poupart, ..."
7. The Dublin dissector or Manual of anatomy by Robert Harrison (1854)
"between the femoral vein and the third insertion of Pou- part's ligament; this
space is the femoral or crural riag; this is somewhat of a triangular form, ..."
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