(1) On a personal level, no one could grudge Snodgrass his hat-trick in Malta after the kneecap injury that earlier disrupted his career and international journey.
(2) He got his first phone when he was 10 as he broke his kneecap, and having a phone meant he could keep in contact with friends and family while he was recovering.
(3) Is it still called a knee-trembler at that age or is it more of a kneecap-shatterer?
(4) As Brodie waited to collect a back-pass, the mutt flew at him, knocking the Scotsman to the ground; he was stretchered off, having shattered his kneecap.
(5) The authors report their experiences of the surgical treatment of external femoro-patellar arthrosis with displacement of the kneecap, by recentering the kneecap, on knees that were not deformed as seen from the front.
(6) Twenty-two cases of external femoro-patellar arthrosis with displacement of the kneecap were treated in this way; in 18 operations, 14 results that remained favourable for more than 6 months have encouraged the authors to continue their trials and to abandon, at least for the time being, patellectomies and patelloplasties.
(7) The very core of the post-Brexit economy was being subjected to a fiscal kneecapping.
(8) The transplant is dissected from the patella joint surface and its feeding pedicle is formed of the soft tissues fixed to the outer kneecap border.
(9) The principal modifications are as follows: -The femoral section was given a concave shape in the sliding bearing of the kneecap and elongated proximally.
(10) With a broken kneecap sidelining Papiss Cissé until October, the on-loan Argentinian Facundo Ferreyra having barely played for Shakhtar Donetsk last season and young Ayoze Pérez still a novice, Newcastle look alarmingly lightweight up front.
(11) In the clinical practice in case of fractures of bones of kneecap, tip of the elbow, greater trochanter, base of the V metatarsal bone there has been substantiated an expediency of application of osteosynthesis by means of the octahedral wire cerclage with measured force of the fractured fragment compression, neutralizing the force of dysalignment.
(12) Chris McCann was given his first start since early March after recovering from a fractured kneecap and the midfielder played a pivotal role, winning two early free-kicks, the second of which was superbly curled home by Maloney.
(13) The Lib Dems were trying to "kneecap" him, he claimed, tearing his posters down and attempting to infiltrate his campaign team.
(14) "I worry I broke your kneecaps when I cut you down," she writes in Bough Down .
(15) Without the Dutchman and with Papiss Cissé still recovering from a broken kneecap, Pardew must now rely on Emmanuel Rivière – struggling to adapt to the Premier League after a £4m move from Monaco – as his principal striker.
(16) Bramble jutted out a right leg and the ball flew off his kneecap into the far corner.
(17) And, at the risk of meeting an irresponsible assertion with an inflammatory response, there plainly can be no equivalence between a distressing altercation on Twitter and getting kneecapped.
(18) In 2002, she was detained while videotaping the demolition of a neighbour's house, and suffered a police beating that broke her ankles and kneecaps.
(19) On the basis of three personal observations this dysplasia syndrome is described in more detail and compared with the other syndromes involving the kneecap and pelvis.
(20) Now, though, it has been kneecapped in a back alley by Brexit provos and its brand has been trashed in the anti-European press’s embrace of post-truth politics.
Patella
Definition:
(n.) A small dish, pan, or vase.
(n.) The kneepan; the cap of the knee.
(n.) A genus of marine gastropods, including many species of limpets. The shell has the form of a flattened cone. The common European limpet (Patella vulgata) is largely used for food.
(n.) A kind of apothecium in lichens, which is orbicular, flat, and sessile, and has a special rim not a part of the thallus.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although MR imaging can accurately show high-grade chondromalacia patellae, it is less accurate in the detection of low-grade disease.
(2) Five cases of mycetoma of bone involving patella, shaft of tibia, medial malleolus, calcaneum and phalanx of great toe are presented.
(3) Ten patients gave a family history of recurrent dislocation of the patella and seven patients showed generalised joint laxity.
(4) Failure was more likely with a subluxated, tilted, or excessively thick patella or flexed femoral component.
(5) Therefore in artificial knee replacement a lateral tilt of the patella sliding groove should not be propagated as 'physiological'.
(6) The histological features of the chondromalacia patellae would be eventually developed by degenerative changes and restorative reaction.
(7) The "tooth" sign represents the relief of severe osteophyte formation in the bundle of the quadriceps tendon at its insertion into the patella.
(8) When the knee was in extension compared to 30 degrees flexion, the sulcus angle was greater, the lateral patellofemoral angle was smaller, there was more lateral patellar displacement, the patella tilted more laterally, and the congruence angle was directed more laterally.
(9) A corrugated appearance of the patellar tendon on sagittal images indicates a reduction in the normal tensile force applied to it and indicates the need for careful evaluation of the patella and quadriceps tendon mechanism.
(10) In thirty patients with subluxation of the patella, the lines were parallel in twenty-four and formed an angle open medially in six.
(11) In one patient, the fibrous band extended from the distal pole of the patella to the intracondylar notch, tethering the patella inferiorly.
(12) However, whereas talus and patella cartilage were affected by the disease, these and femoral-head cartilage seemed to be relatively spared when implanted in air pouches of adjuvant-diseased rats even after a massive inflammatory response was elicited in the cavity following challenge with tuberculin.
(13) A set of 4 projections of radiological examination performed on patients with intraarticular injuries of the knee has been presented, namely: 1) the a-p view of the knee in the standing position, 2) the 1-1 view with 30 degrees of flexion in the lying position, 3) the axial view of patellae, 30 degrees of flexion of the knee, standing position, 4) the tunnel view of the knee joint.
(14) The use of the "patella-clamp" made possible to obtain better results in surgical treatment of multi-fragment fractures of the patella.
(15) When later this was resorbed, and replaced by bone, the cartilage at the attachment zone remained, along with that of the articular surface of the patella.
(16) Tangential radiographic images of the patellae enabled us to measure directly the rotation of the patella around the axis perpendicular to its center.
(17) The effects of a single contusion without surface disruption and without fracture of the patella were studied in 40 rabbits.
(18) 150 knees were re-examined after operative therapy because of chondromalacia patellae.
(19) Of eighty-five consecutive patients, thirteen to twenty years old, with spastic cerebral palsy involving one or both extremities (thirty-five patients seen at one institution and fifty, at another), four had roentgenographic evidence of fragmentation of the distal pole of the patella.
(20) This procedure should be reserved for advanced chondromalacia patellae (Grades III and IV) and recurrent patellar dislocation.