knock-knee

American  

[nok-nee] / ˈnɒkˌni /

noun

1. inward curvature of the legs, causing the knees to knock together in walking.

2. knock-knees, the knees of a person whose legs have such curvature.

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knock-knee British  

noun

1. Technical name: genu valgum.  a condition in which the legs are bent inwards causing the knees to touch when standing

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Other Word Forms

• knock-kneed
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of knock-knee

First recorded in 1820–30

Example Sentences

Dr. Truslow operated on her right shin bone, just below the knee, to correct the knock-knee, knee flexion and outward flexion of that leg.

From Time Magazine Archive

That dog’s gonna be right jealous you dumped her so easy for something as plain and homely as that skinny, knock-knee Foster girl.

From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis

Lateral dislocation of the patella is met with in extreme forms of knock-knee, and after correction of this deformity by osteotomy, and its possible occurrence should be guarded against at the time of the operation.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander

In oblique fracture a gliding displacement is liable to occur and cause bow- or knock-knee.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander

Other Forms of Flat-foot.—Flat-foot is sometimes met with in rickety children, in association with knock-knee or curvature of the bones of the leg, and is treated on the same lines as other rickety deformities.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander