POPLITEAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does popliteal mean? 

• POPLITEAL (adjective)
  The adjective POPLITEAL has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to the area behind the knee joint

  Familiarity information: POPLITEAL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POPLITEAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to the area behind the knee joint

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

knee (hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella)

 Context examples 

Mutation of the gene is associated with van der Woude syndrome and popliteal pterygium syndrome and genetic variation is a factor in orofacial cleft type 6.

(IRF6 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

A blood vessel arising from the popliteal artery that supplies blood to the head of the tibia and the knee joint.

(Inferior Internal Articular Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

A blood vessel arising from the popliteal artery that supplies blood to the head of the fibula and the front of the knee joint.

(Inferior External Articular Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

The vein that runs parallel to the anterior tibial artery and empties into the popliteal vein.

(Anterior Tibial Vein, NCI Thesaurus)

A small blood vessel branch arising opposite of the back of the knee joint from the popliteal artery and supplies the ligaments and synovial membrane in the interior of the articulation.

(Azygos Articular Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

A synovial cyst in the popliteal space arising from the semimembranous bursa or the knee joint.

(Baker Cyst, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The anterior and posterior arteries created at the bifurcation of the popliteal artery.

(Murine Posterior Tibial Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

The vein accompanying the femoral artery in the same sheath; it is a continuation of the popliteal vein and becomes the external iliac vein.

(Femoral Vein, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)