The great muscles of the thigh acting over the kneepan tend to bend the body forward, but the muscles of the calf neutralize this action. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
I have heard the tale of the kneepan of Ajax, the pretended body of Orestes claimed to have been found by the Spartans, and of the body of. From Wordnik.com. [Journey to the Interior of the Earth] Reference
A somewhat similar swelling, often as large as an egg, is sometimes seen over the kneepan, more often in those who work upon their knees, hence the name housemaid's knee. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI)] Reference
Immediately after the injury it may be possible to feel the separate broken fragments of the kneepan and to recognize that they are separated by a considerable space if the break is horizontally across the bone. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI)] Reference
Fauchelevent had dislocated his kneepan in his fall. From Wordnik.com. [Les Misérables] Reference
Nobody knew as he did how each morsel of leather would behave itself under the needle, or could come within two hairbreadths of him in accuracy across the kneepan. From Wordnik.com. [Ralph the Heir] Reference
Was a pretty free stepper in the mazes of the dance, and once, when she was balancing partners with Doodums, she kicked out sort of playful to give him a love pat and fetched him a clip with her tootsey that gave him water on the kneepan. From Wordnik.com. [Old Gorgon Graham]
He set out, with a fit train, in the autumn days of the year 1180; near Rochester City, his mule threw him, dislocated his poor kneepan, raised incurable inflammatory fever; and the poor old man got his dismissal from the whole coil at once. From Wordnik.com. [Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.] Reference
Patella, kneepan 2 5. From Wordnik.com. [Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools] Reference
To feel Sir Hubert's broken kneepan. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 364, April 4, 1829] Reference
I have heard the tale of the kneepan of. From Wordnik.com. [A Journey to the Interior of the Earth] Reference
The kneepan. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
= BROKEN BONE =, I, 80 ankle, I, 115 arm, I, 91 collar bone, I, 85 finger, I, 101 forearm, I, 94 hand, I, 101 hip, I, 104 how to tell a, I, 80 jaw, I, 89 kneepan, I, 109 leg, I, 111 rib, I, 83 shoulder blade, I, 91 thigh, I, 106 wrist, I, 99. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI)] Reference
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