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the body's most overworked hinge, holding everything up while taking all the blame.
means The joint connecting the thigh and lower leg, allowing the leg to bend.
from From Old English 'cneow,' tracing back to the Proto-Germanic 'knewam' and ultimately a Proto-Indo-European root '*genu-' meaning the bend in a leg. That same ancient root branches out to the Latin 'genu' and Greek 'gony' — which is why your knees and your genuflection share a deep family resemblance. The silent 'k' we now stumble past was once fully voiced; English speakers used to actually pronounce it, until the sound quietly slid off the front of the word, leaving the letter behind like a forgotten name tag.
- no muscle
- The kneecap floats in tendon, not bone
- late bloomer
- Kneecaps don't fully harden until age three
- force load
- Carries up to seven times your bodyweight
- sesamoid star
- Patella is the body's largest sesamoid bone
- surrender pose
- Bending it signals submission across human cultures
meniscus cartilage damage — derrick rose's meniscus tear in 2013 ended his mvp-caliber season
patellofemoral pain syndrome — runner's knee affects up to 25% of distance runners annually