Patella

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Patella is the Latin name, but children call it Tent-Shell.

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  • Among them were Fusus, Mytilus, Buccinum, Fissurella, Patella, and Voluta, all found in the same numeric relations as those in which they now exist upon the beach below. —  Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence
  • Chris Patella, executive director of the Bayonne Local Redevelopment Authority - which oversees the development of the Peninsula at Bayonne Harbor and several other large pieces of development here - said being ready is part of the key, especially when it comes to receiving federal stimulus money.
  • For Christopher Patella, who took over as executive director of the Bayonne Local Redevelopment Authority last month, the opening of the base to residents for the first time is the beginning of a long anticipated renaissance in the city, the first small step toward the realization of a dream, marking significant progress at a time when the city most needs it.
  • Meanwhile, mature political commentators Sean Patella-Buckley and Lori Lee Haener analyze the candidates 'every move while sticking their tongues out at each other. —  Seattle Weekly | Complete Issue
  • The Phalanges_, fourteen in number, are the bones of the fingers and thumb, the fingers each having three and the thumb two THE BONES OF THE LOWER EXTREMITIES, sixty in number, are classed as follows: The Femur, Patella, Tibia, Fibula, Tarsus, Metatarsus, and Phalanges. —  The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
 

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