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Kneepan

Kneepan \Knee"pan`\, n. (Anat.) A roundish, flattened, sesamoid bone in the tendon in front of the knee joint; the patella; the kneecap.

Wiktionary
kneepan

n. The kneecap; the patella.

WordNet
kneepan

n. a small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint [syn: patella, kneecap]

Usage examples of "kneepan".

Yours be the glory to discover, by personal experience, how long the kneepan can resist the terrible strapping down which you impose, in how short time the well-developed muscles of the throat can be reduced to mere threads by the constant pressure of the stock, how high the heel of a boot must be to make a short man tall, and how tight the Russian belt may be drawn and yet have wind enough left to sustain life.