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patella

[puh-tel-uh] / pəˈtɛl ə /
NOUN
knee
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Edwin Díaz suffered a full thickness tear of his right patella tendon during a celebration at the World Baseball Classic on Wednesday night.

From Washington Post

Then he suffered a microfracture in his left kneecap and a partial patella tendon tear in his left knee.

From Washington Post

Eppler announced that his closer, Edwin Díaz, suffered a full tear of his right patella tendon when his knee buckled during Puerto Rico’s celebration on the field in Miami on Wednesday night.

From Washington Post

Radiographic instruments can detect, say, defects in a city’s pipes in a similar way to an x-ray picking up a hairline fracture in your patella.

From Scientific American

The Jets announced later in the day that Lawson had ruptured his Achilles while Lewis had torn his patella tendon and sprained his medial collateral ligament.

From Fox News