(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.
Rotula
Definition:
(n.) The patella, or kneepan.
Example Sentences:
(1) The following sites were examined: clavicula, olecranon, styloid apophysis of ulna and radius, anterosuperior spina of ilium, rotula (patella), internal and external malleolus.