Patella Definition

pə-tĕlə
patellae, patellas
noun
patellae
A movable bone at the front of the human knee.
Webster's New World
A small, shallow pan used in ancient Rome.
Webster's New World
Any panlike formation.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Patella

Noun

Singular:
patella
Plural:
patellae, patellas

Origin of Patella

  • From Latin patella (“a small pan or dish, a plate; the kneepan, patella"), diminutive of patina (“a broad shallow dish, pan").

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin diminutive of patina plate, pan paten

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Patella Sentence Examples

  • In the most primitive Lamellibranchs there is no separate generative aperture but the gonads discharge into the renal cavity, as in Patella among Gastropods.

  • This columella muscle is the same thing as the muscles adhering to the shell in Patella, and the posterior adductor of Lamellibranchs.

  • In Colymbus the patella is reduced to a small ossicle, its function being taken by the greatly developed pyramidal processus tibialis anterior; in Podiceps and Hesperornis the patella itself is large and pyramidal.

  • In these, as in Patella, the typical ctenidia are aborted, and the branchial function is assumed by close-set lamelliform processes arranged in a series beneath the mantle-skirt on either side of the foot.

  • The existence of two renal organs in Patella, and their relation to the pericardium (a portion of the coelom), is important.

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PPAPAT

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ALALLA

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Words Starting With P and Ending With A

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