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popliteal(dictionary)
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popliteal arch(medicine)
popliteal line(medicine)
popliteal artery(medicine)
popliteal muscle(medicine)

nowed (iou) and popliteal fossa (medicine)


nowed (iou)



nowed adjective. L16.
[from French noue knotted (see NOWY) + -ED1.]
Heraldry. Knotted; tied in a knot; esp. (of a snake) displayed in the form of a horizontal figure of eight with the head and tail extending. Usu. postpositive.

popliteal fossa (medicine)


popliteal fossa


The diamond-shaped space posterior to the knee joint bounded superficially by the diverging biceps femoris and semimembranosus muscles above and inferiorly by the two heads of the gastrocnemius muscle; deeply, the fossa is bound superiorly by the diverging supracondylar lines of the femur and the soleal line of the tibia inferiorly. Contents: tibial nerve, popliteal artery, vein, fat.

Synonym: fossa poplitea, poples, ham, popliteal region, popliteal space, popliteus.