A small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint.
Синонимы
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 .
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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Kneecap в диалектах
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