| 单词 | housemaid's knee |
| 释义 | > as lemmashousemaid's knee housemaid's knee inflammation of the bursa over the kneecap (prepatellar bursa), typically induced by kneeling on hard floors. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of joints > [noun] > bursitis > of knee housemaid's knee1824 water on the knee1882 prepatellar bursitis1898 1824 C. Bell Observ. Injuries Spine & Thigh Bone 66 If..you see a young woman with swelling and pain of the knee-joint, and do not find this position of the limb and tension of the hamstring tendons, then is the inflammation exterior to the joint, and the case is probably only the ‘housemaid's knee’. 1889 J. K. Jerome Three Men in Boat i. 3 The only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid's knee. 1904 Donahoe's Mag. Nov. 429/1 I once had the housemaid's knee from constant kneeling and scrubbing the little house where Georgie was born. 2003 Daily Tel. 28 Oct. 9/1 Doctors have added ‘cleaner's chest’ to the long list of occupational diseases, including housemaid's knee and writer's cramp. < as lemmas |
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