What is "popliteal"

Usage examples of "popliteal".

Shots were fired, and Timmy got a bullet in the leg, severing his popliteal artery.

It was the back of the leg with its hamstring attachments and the veins and, most important, the big popliteal artery, that would require all the unriddling.

There is a groove in the fibula just below the knee where the lateral popliteal nerve passes close against the bone.

Stephen would never trust him with a popliteal aneurism, having seen what he had done to a patient in Baits.

In this affection the colored sweating appears symmetrically in various parts of the body, the parts commonly affected being the cheeks, forehead, side of the nose, whole face, chest, abdomen, backs of the hands, finger-tips, and the flexors, flexures at the axillae, groins, and popliteal spaces.

The thermometer was variously placed in the mouth, anus, axilla, popliteal space, groin, urethra, and different instruments were from time to time employed.

The great sciatic nerve was found hanging 15 inches from the stump, having given way from its division in the popliteal space.

The back presented a remarkable induration which involved the entire dorsal aspect, including the deltoid regions, the upper arms, the buttocks, and the thighs, down to and involving the popliteal spaces.

A popliteal aneurism, a Colles' fracture, a spina bifida, a tropical abscess, and an elephantiasis.

The injury would have torn if not severed the popliteal artery behind the knee, and JR, as he has since become affection­.