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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A deformity of the legs in which the knees are abnormally close together and the ankles are spread widely apart.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The condition of being knock-kneed.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Med.) A condition in which the knees are bent in so as to touch each other in walking; inknee.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Alternative spelling of knock knee.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an inward slant of the thigh

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