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Definition of Sural
1. a. Of or pertaining to the calf of the leg; as, the sural arteries.
Definition of Sural
1. Adjective. (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the calf of the leg. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sural
1. pertaining to the calf of the leg [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sural
Literary usage of Sural
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"The sural arteries (aa. sureties; inferior muscular arteries) are two large
branches, which are distributed to the Gastrocnemius, Soleus, and Plantaris. ..."
2. Morris's Human Anatomy: A Complete Systematic Treatise by English and by Henry Morris, James Playfair McMurrich (1907)
"The junction of the peroneal anastomotic branch with the medial sural ...
The sural (external or short saphenous) nerve is formed by the union of the ..."
3. Operative surgery by Theodor Kocher (1894)
"... of the fibula it passes into the peroneus longus muscle, having given off, a
few centimetres above, the lateral sural nerve (communicans peroneus). ..."
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