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Things patella often describes ("patella ________")
- groove
- tap
- cartilage
- increases
- pain
- jerk
- joint
- gene
- dorsal
- tendon
- alignment
- malalignment
- strain
- tension
- lateral
- bone
- loci
- brace
- luxation
- replacement
- figure
- result
- locus
- reflex
- contacts
- mobility
- present
- facets
- points
- length
- plays
- ligament
- inwards
- plug
- instability
- fossa
- autograft
- restraining
- results
- component
- tendons
- track
- posterior
- clicks
- resurfacing
- rupture
- floats
- rides
- fracture
- reflexes
- slides
- retinaculum
- fractures
- tracking
- clonus
- tracks
- allografts
- functions
- test
- insertion
- elbow
- hammer
- forwards
- articulate
- prosthesis
- free
- parallel
- splint
- outwards
- dislocation
- dislocations
- subluxation
- syndrome
- move
- tendinitis
- mobilization
- surface
- fragments
- fig
- relative
- region
- downwards
- linkage
- outward
- tibia
How patella often is described ("________ patella")
- opposite
- broken
- emarginate
- anterior
- involved
- hypoplastic
- lateral
- layered
- high
- fractured
- tangential
- unossified
- entire
- palpal
- inferior
- subcutaneous
- passive
- lower
- painful
- latin
- rudimentary
- backed
- subluxated
- flat
- hypermobile
- normal
- dislocated
- proximal
- rotated
- ossified
- shaped
- cartilaginous
- right
- tripartite
- oblique
- absent
- congenital
- ligamentum
- above
- triangular
- unencumbered
- symptomatic
- superior
- fourth
- unstable
- ascidian
- distal
- avian
- lying
- limpet
- stuck
- excise
- double
- bony
- resected
- inferomedial
- contralateral
- resurfaced
- monkish
- multipartite
- movable
- marked
- posterior
- bipartite
- medial
- superolateral
- displaced
- injured
- left
- human
- chondromalacia
- diseased
- developmental
- depressed
- nail
- genus
- partite
