(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) In sixty-two (73 per cent) of the legs, the nerve coursed within the lateral muscle compartment from its origin to its exit through the crural fascia.
(2) The demonstration of the distal run-off, following femoro-crural bypass, presented a problem; in eight cases this could not be achieved because of technical difficulties.
(3) These results demonstrate that a difference in myosin heavy chain isoforms and oxidative capacity exists between the costal and crural regions of the rat diaphragm.
(4) The transformations described are interpreted as a response of the immune system to the nerve cut, and as a result of it--denervation of the crural tissues, disturbance of their nervous trophic, as well as--to transplantation of the allogeneic nervous trunk.
(5) Histology of seven clinically diagnosed cases of Martorell's ulcer was compared with that of twenty-seven crural ulcers of venous origin.
(6) We propose that the determination of the "talo-crural angle" on the uninjured side will serve as a guide for the adequate closed reduction of the fractured ankle, if it is reduced to within 2 degrees of the "talo-crural angle" of the uninjured side.
(7) Tidal shortening will increase the force output of costal while decreasing that of the crural diaphragm.
(8) Bipolar stainless steel wire electrodes were placed unilaterally into the costal and crural portions of the diaphragm and into the parasternal intercostal muscle in the second or third intercostal space.
(9) Two weeks later a crural ulcer developed at the distal excision site.
(10) Operations performed included the transthoracic Collis-Nissen procedure (59), Collis-Belsey repair (14), Nissen fundoplication (one), repair of acute postoperative paraesophageal hernia (one), division of obstructing crural suture (one), and esophageal resection (23).
(11) It is based on extensive cadaver dissections which demonstrate that a convex domal segment plus a sharp domal segment-lateral crural drop-off are key determinants of a refined tip.
(12) The average somatic diameter of ganglion cells projecting to the sartorius muscle was significantly smaller than that of cells projecting to the lateral crural nerve.
(13) Similarly, no age-related differences existed (P greater than 0.05) in the crural diaphragm in lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) or glutathione peroxidase (GPX) activity.
(14) Electromyographic (EMG) activity and tidal shortening of the costal and crural segments of the diaphragm and of the external intercostal were recorded during hyperoxic CO2 rebreathing in 12 anesthetized dogs.
(15) When Pdi was increased to 128, 191, 287 and 421% of the value measured during unobstructed breathing, costal and crural fc rose significantly in all animals because of an increase in the power of high-frequency components and a decline in the power of low-frequency components.
(16) We conclude that the crural region of the rat diaphragm is significantly lower in oxidative capacity than all the costal regions.
(17) The oxidative capacity and cross-sectional area of muscle fibers were compared between the costal and crural regions of the cat diaphragm and across the abdominal-thoracic extent of the muscle.
(18) The transplant respected the integrity of the antero-superior-iliac-spine and the crural arch.
(19) Iv DSA provided good information for the solution of therapeutic and tactical problems in pelvic, femoral and popliteal arterial lesions but in 16% of the cases it gave no opportunity to assess the status of the crural arteries.
(20) We present follow-up of up to 8 years in a series of 80 consecutive reconstructions to the distal crural vessels using human umbilical vein with an adjuvant AVF.