Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
crus .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Anat.) See
crus .
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- noun Plural form of
crus .
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Examples
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It is bounded below by the crest of the pubis; on either side by the margins of the opening in the aponeurosis, which are called the crura of the ring; and above, by a series of curved intercrural fibers.
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For their anterior three-fourths they lie in intimate apposition with one another, but behind they diverge in the form of two tapering processes, known as the crura, which are firmly connected to the rami of the pubic arch.
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Vapores a cerebro trahendi sunt frictionibus universi, cucurbitulis siccis, humeris ac dorso affixis, circa pedes et crura.
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Ulcerata crura, sitis ipsis adest immodica, pallidi, lingua sicca.
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This section is all about the clitoris and its many wonderful parts: clitoris, hood of clitoris, glans of clitoris, shaft of clitoris, suspensory ligament, crura, bulbs of the vestibule, and vestibular glands.
OUR BODIES, OURSELVES The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective 2005
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Nam aliqui victi vltrà modum diabolica deuotione proijciunt se sub rotis currus præcedentis, vt frangantur sibi crura, brachia, latera, dorsa, nec non et colla in reuerentiam Dei sui (vt dicunt) a quo remunerationem sperant, venire ad Paradisum terrestrem.
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Habent et equos armatos, crura etiam tecta, galeas et loricas.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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Super alios autem Anthropophagos Scythas, in quadam conualle magna Imai montis, regio est, quæ vocatur Abarimon, in qua syluestres viuunt homines, auersis post crura plantis, eximiæ velocitatis, passim cum feris vagantes.
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Diuites autem habent gladios acutos in fine, ex vna tantum parte incidentes, et aliquantulum curuos: et habent equum armatum, crura etiam tecta.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Habent et equos armatos, crura etiam tecta, galeas et loricas.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
chained_bear commented on the word crura
see crus for a usage note, if you are over 18.
April 10, 2008