Citations:saphænous

Adjective

 * 1850, Henry J. Bigelow, in Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, David Clapp; Volume XLIII, №. 18, page #361:
 * The saphænous opening, as far as we can reach it through the swelled integuments, is equally free from crural hernia.
 * 1854, H. D. Bulkley, in New York Medical Times, Baker, Godwin & Co.; Volume III, page #398:
 * The situation of the tumor is that of a femoral hernia ; it is immediately over the saphænous opening of the fascia lata, and its mobility is slight.
 * 1886, Charles Creighton, Illustrations of Unconscious Memory in Disease, H. K. Lewis; Chapter VII, page #94:
 * Taking this to be the true sequence of events—and the narrative was not inspired by any theory—the external saphænous nerve must have transmitted many slight impressions, which were stored up, to discharge themselves afterwards with thousandfold intensity of pain along every branch of the great sciatic.