knee-joint
121water on the knee — Date: circa 1890 an accumulation of synovial fluid in the knee joint (as from injury or disease) marked especially by swelling …
122total knee arthroplasty (TKA) — arthroplasty of both sides of the knee joint, with tibial, patellar, and femoral components …
123Brodie knee — a chronic synovitis of the knee joint in which the affected parts acquire a soft and pulpy consistency …
124capped knee — distention of the synovial bursa over the knee joint of horses or cattle …
125septic knee — a suppurating knee joint …
126trick knee — popular term for a knee joint susceptible to locking in position, most often due to longitudinal splitting of the medial meniscus …
127thick-knee — noun large headed large eyed crepuscular or nocturnal shorebird of the Old World and tropical America having a thickened knee joint • Syn: ↑stone curlew, ↑Burhinus oedicnemus • Hypernyms: ↑shorebird, ↑shore bird, ↑limicoline bird • Member Hol …
128Injury, knee meniscus — Injury to one of the two crescent shaped cartilage pads between the two joints formed by the femur (the thigh bone) and the tibia (the shin bone). Each meniscus acts as a smooth surface for the joint to move on. The two menisci are easily injured …