Usually means: Grooved structure guiding tendon movement.
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  1. trochlea: Merriam-Webster
  2. trochlea: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. trochlea: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. trochlea: Collins English Dictionary
  5. trochlea: Wordnik
  6. trochlea: Wiktionary
  7. trochlea: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. trochlea: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. trochlea: Dictionary.com
  10. Trochlea: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Trochlea: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. trochlea: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Trochlea: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. trochlea: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. trochlea: FreeDictionary.org
  16. trochlea: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. trochlea: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. trochlea: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. trochlea: Medical Etymology Anatomy
  5. trochlea: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (trochlea)

noun:  (anatomy) A structure resembling or acting like a pulley.
noun:  In the elbow joint, the articular surface of the lower extremity of the humerus, grasped by the trochlear notch of the ulna.
noun:  A pulley-like cartilage through which the superior oblique muscle of the eyeball passes.

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