a. Anat. [ad. mod.L. sūrālis (cf. F. sural, It. surale, Sp. sural), f. sūra calf of the leg.] Of or pertaining to the calf of the leg; esp. in sural artery, vein.

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1615.  Crooke, Body of Man, 734. The Surall vaine is disseminated into the muscles of the Sura or calfe.

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1672.  Wiseman, Wounds, iv. 40. Wounded by a puncture in the Inside of the calf of his leg into the Surall Artery.

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1840.  G. V. Ellis, Anat., 674. The lower or sural branches … three or four in number.

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1878.  A. M. Hamilton, Nervous Dis., 259. The case of a ballet-dancer … in which the sural muscles were affected.

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1899.  Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VIII. 59. Spasm of the sural muscles.

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