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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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d8Crus \[d8]Crus\ (kr?s), n.; pl. {Crura} (kr[?]"r[?]). [L., the leg.] (Anat.) (a) That part of the hind limb between the femur, or thigh, and the ankle, or tarsus; the shank. (b) Often applied, especially in the plural, to parts which are supposed to resemble a pair of legs; as, the crura of the diaphragm, a pair of muscles attached to it; crura cerebri, two bundles of nerve fibers in the base of the brain, connecting the medulla and the forebrain. | |
