Word
patella, n.
(patellae)
a small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint
<noun.body>
freq. cnt.: 1
freq. cnt.: 1
kneecap
kneepan
patella
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
patellar
semantic pointers
hypernym
sesamoid bone, sesamoid, os sesamoideum
part holonym
knee, knee joint, human knee, articulatio genus, genu