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What (who) is knee-cap - definition
BONE OF THE LEG
Knee Cap; Knee cap; Patellae; Patela; Patellar; Apex of patella; Patella baja; Apex patellae; Basis patellae; Knee-cap; Kneecap
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knee-cap
see kneecap
Patellar
·adj Of or pertaining to the patella, or kneepan.
patella
n.
[L.]
1.
Knee-pan, knee-cap.
2.
(Conch.) Limpet.
Wikipedia
Patella
The patella, also known as the kneecap, is a flat, rounded triangular bone which articulates with the femur (thigh bone) and covers and protects the anterior articular surface of the knee joint. The patella is found in many tetrapods, such as mice, cats, birds and dogs, but not in whales, or most reptiles.
In humans, the patella is the largest sesamoid bone (i.e., embedded within a tendon or a muscle) in the body. Babies are born with a patella of soft cartilage which begins to ossify into bone at about four years of age.
Examples of use of knee-cap
1. Every weekend she would pull on her boots for Chiswick Ladies Football Club – until a sickening challenge during one game left her with a dislocated knee cap and ruptured ligaments.
2. Nikita Khrushchev was, to use the Russian expression, as bald as a knee–cap, but his successor Leonid Brezhnev boasted a tall pompadour as well as those famous bushy eyebrows.
3. Obama, who said he did not want to "knee–cap" Clinton, is still careful in his criticism, not mentioning Whitewater or other 1''0s Clinton controversies, which another rival, former senator John Edwards (D–N.C.), has not shied away from addressing.