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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[L.

trochlea

block or pulley.]

(Anat.)

Shaped like, or resembling, a pulley; pertaining to, or connected with, a trochlea;

as, a

trochlear

articular surface; the

trochlear

muscle of the eye.

Trochlear nerve

See

Pathetic nerve

, under

trochlear ‎(not comparable)

(anatomy) Shaped like, or resembling, a pulley; related to, or connected with, a trochlea.