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Meanings of kneecap in English
Synonyms
Examples for "patella"
Examples for "patella"
1
Preoperative displacement results in a higher risk at a postoperatively displaced patella.
2
The wound was perfectly round and the patella and femur were intact.
3
Single specimens have been known to attain the size of the patella.
4
I'd left my patella on top of the stands at Villa Park.
5
There are some common risk factors that can affect how the patella tracks.
1
You see, besides breaking my leg I cracked my knee pan an' that's made it wuss.
2
Then bandage the splint on at the ankle, at the upper part of the leg, and above and below the knee pan.
1
The great muscles of the thigh acting over the kneepan tend to bend the body forward, but the muscles of the calf neutralize this action.
2
In like manner, he treated the bunches of hair that grow over the animal's kneepans and elbows.
3
An old doctor came to me once (this is literal fact) with some contrivance or other for people with broken kneepans.
Usage of kneecap in English
1
His elevation above the valley was about the kneecap of the Generoso.
2
Mobilisations to the ankle and around the kneecap may also be used.
3
With a bullet in his kneecap he would have lost his chance.
4
He had experienced the strange, almost overpowering desire to touch the kneecap.
5
She unclenched one hand from the sheet, rubbed her kneecap with it.
6
The kneecap popped out of its socket, and she went down shrieking.
7
As if she was really affected by his lips on her kneecap.
8
Inside the waterfall, I stumbled and struck my kneecap on a rock.
9
Bourne smashed the sole of his shoe into Coven's kneecap, shattering it.
10
Her arms and legs flailed, and one heel found a Terrorist's kneecap.
11
Her kneecap radiated pain like it had been smacked with a hammer.
12
I kicked the downward edge of his kneecap with everything I had.
13
I kicked out with both feet at an angle to his kneecap.
14
Ahhh! she sputtered, her legs pulled close to her body, kneecap floating.
15
It wasn't very ugly yet, just puffy and purpling under the kneecap.
16
In the webbing of the helmet was the young man's own right kneecap.
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United States of America
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