CRUS (crura)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: crura   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does crus mean? 

• CRUS (noun)
  The noun CRUS has 1 sense:

1. the leg from the knee to foot

  Familiarity information: CRUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The leg from the knee to foot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("crus" is a kind of...):

limb (one of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping: arm; leg; wing; flipper)

Holonyms ("crus" is a part of...):

leg (a human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part of the limb between the knee and ankle)

Derivation:

crural (of or relating the leg from the knee to the foot)

 Context examples 

A hole in the right crus of the diaphragm through which the esophagus and vagus nerve pass.

(Esophageal Opening, NCI Thesaurus)

A region of the brain encompassing the crus cerebri and the midbrain tegmentum.

(Cerebral Peduncle, NCI Thesaurus)