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- noun Plural form of
patella .
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Examples
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Style sleuths must have noticed, she writes, that "no matter what Middleton wears, her knees are almost always on show. ... her skirts are never of the demure, over-the-knee variety, but always cropped just short enough to display the soon-to-be-royal patellas."
Spotlight on Kate's ... knees? Autumn Brewington 2011
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The knee joints, elbows and other mechanical parts are flown in, but much of the artistry happens on site, where a custom leg is created by hands that understand the mysteries of weight bearing and tibia bones and patellas.
Alicia Whitaker: Benefit for Haiti: More Prosthetics on the Way 2010
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The knee joints, elbows and other mechanical parts are flown in, but much of the artistry happens on site, where a custom leg is created by hands that understand the mysteries of weight bearing and tibia bones and patellas.
Alicia Whitaker: Benefit for Haiti: More Prosthetics on the Way 2010
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All of the adult breeding pugs had luxating patellas, a congenital deformity likely to be passed along to their puppies where the kneecap dislocates or moves out of its normal location, which can be very painful and is expensive to treat.
Wayne Pacelle: Tax Code Crackdown Leads to Rescue of 120 Puppy Mill Dogs Wayne Pacelle 2010
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All of the adult breeding pugs had luxating patellas, a congenital deformity likely to be passed along to their puppies where the kneecap dislocates or moves out of its normal location, which can be very painful and is expensive to treat.
Wayne Pacelle: Tax Code Crackdown Leads to Rescue of 120 Puppy Mill Dogs Wayne Pacelle 2010
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Proper footwear is essential -- having flat feet can affect the alignment of the legs, causing the patellas to track outside of their normal groove.
A Dreamer's Run: Can professional training improve a middle-age runner's marathon time? 2010
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Note 112: Must., p. 37, chap. 104: "et extendere etiam et curvare similiter pedes singulasque partes corporis ita formare ut quae concava esse debent premantur, quae gracilia vero sunt constringantur, quae extantia, adducantur … caput vero diligenter rotundum facere, patellas etiam in genibus movere, deinde omne corpus suspendere et deponere et universas partes officiis suis restaurare." back
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Bennett boots, her skirts are never of the demure, over-the-knee variety, but always cropped just short enough to display the soon-to-be-royal patellas.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Bennett boots, her skirts are never of the demure, over-the-knee variety, but always cropped just short enough to display the soon-to-be-royal patellas.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Bennett boots, her skirts are never of the demure, over-the-knee variety, but always cropped just short enough to display the soon-to-be-royal patellas.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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