What's the difference between kneecap and roundish?

Kneecap


Definition:

  • (n.) The kneepan.
  • (n.) A cap or protection for the knee.

Example Sentences:

  • (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.

Roundish


Definition:

  • (a.) Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Endoscopic examination disclosed an almost roundish, smooth-surfaced, flat and dull red area corresponding to IIc (slightly depressed type).
  • (2) Roundish cells, appearing to be myofibroblasts surrounded by a more lax connective tissue and elastic fibers, were found close to the Dacron threads.
  • (3) These are roundish shaped, have a granulous matrix and contain very low, hardly detectable levels of the above mentioned enzymes.
  • (4) After negative staining the large subunits (20.3nm width) usually show a roundish profile, whereas the small subunits (12nm width) show an elongated, often bipartite, profile.
  • (5) Some labeled cells were roundish or elliptical with few, if any, processes; others had several clearly detectable processes.
  • (6) In connection with various diseases, spindle-shaped or roundish 2-15 micrometer large corpuscles with a yellowish-green, partly brown color are found in phagocytic cells of lymph nodes of various localisation.
  • (7) Histologically, roundish and oval cells with "swollen" nuclei forming a sort of parallel rows, foci of calcification and chondroid metaplasia characteristic for such cases were found.
  • (8) In the transfected cells, polypeptides of both type I and type II CKs were synthesized to near-equimolar amounts, formed heterotypic complexes and assembled into IFs with a peculiar tendency to accumulate into variously sized, often roundish aggregates in the juxtanuclear region, usually one per cell.
  • (9) The BC is a small, generally spindle- or bell-shaped, rarely roundish cell bridging with its one or two smooth processes two capillaries ore precapillaries.
  • (10) In the noninvasive cell population ASML most cells remained in the typical roundish morphology and did not interact with the endothelial cell layers.
  • (11) The cells from poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma were roundish, occurred as solitary cells or irregularly overlapping cell clusters, and showed markedly atypical nuclei.
  • (12) The cells of papillary thyroid carcinoma are shown to have the following characteristic morphological features: oval or oval to roundish shape of nuclei, uneven sinuous, folded border of the nuclear membrane, nuclear fissure, intranuclear cytoplasmic inclusions, optically clean nuclei.
  • (13) In the cervical enlargement of the rat spinal cord, fluoride-resistant acid phosphatase (FRAP) occurs in most of the small dark sinuous primary afferent central terminals (CI-terminals) of type I-synaptic glomeruli of lamina II and is lacking in the large light roundish primary afferent CII-terminals of type II-glomeruli.
  • (14) Malignant rhabdoid tumor (2.7% of our cases) possesses cells with large, roundish nuclei, pale chromatin, very prominent nucleoli and characteristic spherical intermediate filament condensations.
  • (15) Changes of caliber are caused by either tapering or roundish vaults and wrinkles, changes of surface by smaller humps or recesses.
  • (16) The cuboid cells are identified as type II (precursor) cells based on ultrastructural criteria for embryonic type II cells (Ten Have-Opbroek et al., 1988a, 1990a), including a cuboid cell shape, a large and roundish nucleus, rough and smooth endoplasmic reticulum (ER), osmiophilic multivesicular bodies, and dense bodies.
  • (17) These strands become continuous and the facets surrounded by them are roundish in 12 day old embryos.
  • (18) The clinical picture showed well circumscribed roundish areas free of erythema, simulating normal skin (" nappes claires").
  • (19) In the groove region, the superficial epithelial cells were roundish, while the basal ones were elongated.
  • (20) Whereas nearly all platelets from the controls had a discoid shape, those from one of the patients (mother of the other two cases) were mostly flat or else roundish with two or three marginal bundles in different orientations.

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