NOUN
- a continuation of the femoral artery that branches to supply the legs and feet
How To Use popliteal artery In A Sentence
- 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.
- The patient upon whom he performed his now celebrated operation was afflicted with a popliteal aneurism -- that is, the aneurism was located on the large popliteal artery just behind the knee-joint. A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume IV: Modern Development of the Chemical and Biological Sciences
- Methods: The origins, external diameters, branches and the distributions of the subscapular artery and the popliteal artery were observed and measured on 34 adult limb specimens.
- To study the diagnosis and therapy principle of popliteal artery trauma.
- The articular branch of the popliteal artery is not suitable to act as the recipient vessel.
- Dislocated knee, tore everything, ruptured my popliteal artery and almost lost my leg. Pic o day – he’s not playing for awhile | YepYep - Your Daily Waste Of Time
- In some rare instances the popliteal artery is found to divide above the popliteus muscle into the anterior, or the posterior tibial, or the peronaeal. Surgical Anatomy
- He was hit in the back of the knee by a bullet that clipped his popliteal artery and his boot began to fill with his blood. Five U.S. Generals Killed By "Friendly Fire" | myFiveBest
- To clarify the precise displacement of the popliteal artery(PA) during knee flexion using magnetic resonance imaging(MRI).
