kneepan

American  

[nee-pan] / ˈniˌpæn /

noun

1. the kneecap or patella.

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kneepan British  

/ ˈniːˌpæn /

noun

1. anatomy another word for patella

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Etymology

Origin of kneepan

1400–50; late Middle English. See knee, pan ¹

Example Sentences

From the bottom of the belly to the middle of the kneepan, eighteen parts, two minutes.

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The swelling is seen especially below the kneepan, on each side of the front of the joint, and also often above the kneepan.

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Nobody knew as he did how each morsel of leather would behave itself under the needle, or could come within two hairbreadths of him in accuracy across the kneepan.

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The patella, or kneepan, has no corresponding bone in the arm; and the carpus, or ankle, which corresponds to the wrist, contains seven instead of eight bones.

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In like manner, he treated the bunches of hair that grow over the animal's kneepans and elbows.

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