How To Use popliteal In A Sentence
- -- The femoral is a continuation of the external iliac, and extends from Poupart's ligament to the middle of the lower third of the thigh, where it becomes the popliteal. An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.
- In company with this nerve will be seen the posterior saphena vein, L, which, commencing behind the outer ankle, ascends the mesial line of the calf to join the popliteal vein, G, in the cleft between the heads of the gastrocnemius. Surgical Anatomy
- Higher expression of BP antigen was observed in popliteal fossa, antecubital fossa, upper back, lower back, medial side of thigh and lower abdomen.
- The inferior genicular arteries (aa. genu inferiores; inferior articular arteries) (Figs. 550, 551), two in number, arise from the popliteal beneath the Gastrocnemius. VI. The Arteries. 6c. The Popliteal Artery
- An incision was made in the middle of the crural fascia, starting at the insertion of the Achilles tendon and extending up to the popliteal fossa to the level of origin of the two heads of the gastrocnemius muscle.
- The feeding vessel is likely arising from the popliteal vessel.
- Angiographic findings include severe distal, segmental occlusive lesions, but the more proximal arteries (below the popliteal and distal to brachial branches) are normal.
- The obturator nerve, by its posterior division, sends a branch through the adductor magnus muscle onto the popliteal artery that enters the knee joint posteriorly.
- Posteriorly, the head rises to a pointed apex that affords attachment for the arcuate popliteal ligament and, on the lateral side, part of the biceps tendon.
- • If your knees feel discomfort, use a rolled-up towel, pillow, or blanket as a cushion behind the knee joint in the popliteal area, if you know where that is. You Being Beautiful
