| 释义 |
knee-pan|ˈniːpæn|
[f. knee n. + pan.]
1. The bone in front of the knee-joint; the patella, knee-cap.
14..Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 590/18 Internodium, the knepanne, or wherlebon. 1565Golding Ovid's Met. viii. (1593) 206 Hir leannesse made her joints bolne big and kneepannes for to swell. 1688Lond. Gaz. No. 2406/4 The Bone in one of his Legs sticks out below his Knee-Pan. 1881Mivart Cat 109 The articular surfaces of the condyles..form an elongated, transversely concave, ascending articular surface for the knee-pan.
2. Entom. ‘A concavity at the apex of the thigh, underneath, to receive the base of the Tibia’ (Kirby & Sp. Entomol. (1826) III. 384). |