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the kneecap (a small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint)- He fractured his patella playing basketball.
- Joanie is trying to snap Ralph's patella with a bushido stun kick.Don DeLillo -- White Noise
- Shrapnel had wedged itself behind his patella.Chris Kyle -- American Sniper
- I learned that the bones in the leg are the femur, the tibia, the patella, and the fibula.Sharon M. Draper -- Out of My Mind
- Furthermore, each leg of mine has seven sections—the coxa, the trochanter, the femur, the patella, the tibia, the metatarsus, and the tarsus.E. B. White -- Charlotte's Web
- Coxa, trochanter, femur, patella, tibia, metatarsus, and tarsus.E. B. White -- Charlotte's Web
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