kneecap
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2.3
- noun
- /ˈniːˌkæp/
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rótula
- I also tore some of the smaller ligaments in the kneecap itself, as our doctor here, who's a sports medicine guy was able to figure out looking at it.
- a broken kneecap
- a dislocated kneecap
- a shattered kneecap
Ever since you dislocated your little kneecap, my poor bud.
- Ever since you dislocated your little kneecap, my poor bud.
- And when I cracked my kneecap in half, I knew because I could never run straight.
- And she did a stunt and she can see she could have broken her kneecap.
- He strapped my knee and pretty much said I was lucky that I didn't break like shut up my Patella like my kneecap.
- Like, I just felt this intense pain behind my kneecap and I thought it would just loosen up as I went.
- So I, I am in high school, I'm shaving my legs and I, I get the tiniest little nick on my leg right on my kneecap.
- One day you wake up in your legs a little bit longer or you got a little bit of hair on your kneecaps or you got, you know, maybe you get a little titty or something.
- I also tore some of the smaller ligaments in the kneecap itself, as our doctor here, who's a sports medicine guy was able to figure out looking at it.
- But going back to the kneecap, I can't say it any other way now since I've seen it.
Examples
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So I fallen in, broke my kneecap, all kinds of yeah, if your plant foot goes, you're just out of control.
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Like, I just felt this intense pain behind my kneecap and I thought it would just loosen up as I went.
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And when I cracked my kneecap in half, I knew because I could never run straight.
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What does the x-ray of the right kneecap show?
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"Name!" the officer said, and kicked me below the kneecap, so I suddenly lost balance as my muscles jerked.
Fiction book (2002) -
I bent towards him, grasped his heel with my right hand, and found his kneecap with my left.
Fiction book (1991) -
Occasionally, she would bend one knee so her kneecap was flush with the tabletop.
Fiction book (1997) -
You're so negative!" She bopped me on the kneecap with one of her fists.
Fiction book (1998) -
Climbing back, I slip on musty weeds, and the front of my kneecap connects with a half-exposed rock.
Fiction book (1991) -
The x-ray revealed a fracture in her kneecap after the accident.
Synonyms
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6.7
A small flat bone at the front of the knee called the kneecap
A small flat bone at the front of the knee that protects it
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Kneecap is simply knee + cap, where cap means 'cover' or 'top'. So a kneecap is the small, flat bone that 'covers' and protects the front of the knee.