PATELLA
\pe͡ɪtˈɛlə], \peɪtˈɛlə], \p_eɪ_t_ˈɛ_l_ə]\
Definitions of PATELLA
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint
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genus of the family Patellidae: common European limpets
By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The kneepan; the cap of the knee.
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A genus of marine gastropods, including many species of limpets. The shell has the form of a flattened cone. The common European limpet (Patella vulgata) is largely used for food.
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A kind of apothecium in lichens, which is orbicular, flat, and sessile, and has a special rim not a part of the thallus.
By Oddity Software
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The kneepan; the cap of the knee.
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A kind of apothecium in lichens, which is orbicular, flat, and sessile, and has a special rim not a part of the thallus.
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A genus of marine gastropods, including many species of limpets. The shell has the form of a flattened cone. The common European limpet (vulgata) is largely used for food.
By Noah Webster.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
By James Champlin Fernald
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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Diminutive of patera, ‘a boil,’ so called from its shape. A sort of sesamoid, flat, short, thick, rounded bone, situate in front of the knee, and enveloped in the substance of the tendon common to the extensor muscles of the leg. The posterior surface of the patella is divided into two facettes, united angularly, which are encrusted with cartilage, and each of which is articulated with one of the condyles of the femur. The patella is developed by a single point of ossification. When the patella is fractured, it is difficult to produce bony union. This can only be accomplished by keeping the fractured extremities closely in apposition.
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Cup-p. Fixa, Olecranon.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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