trochlear

adj

1. (not-comparable)Shaped like, or resembling, a pulley; related to, or connected with, a trochlea.
2. (not-comparable)Of or pertaining to the trochlear nerve.

noun

1. A trochlear muscle or nerve.

   “The two trochlears decussate in the anterior medullary velum.”

   “At 90° of flexion, the patella enters the condylar fossa, where the contact areas are on both the lateral and medial trochlears of the femur.”

   “Using three-dimensional printing, they replaced the native trochlear in four cadaveric knees with dysplastic trochlears and then subjected them to squat simulation, open chain extension, and a patella stability test.”