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Definition of Knock-knee

1. Noun. An inward slant of the thigh.

Medical Definition of Knock-knee

1. A condition in which the knees are bent in so as to touch each other in walking; inknee. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Knock-knee

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Literary usage of Knock-knee

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1. The Science and Art of Surgery: A Treatise on Surgical Injuries, Diseases by John Eric Erichsen (1885)
"is evident that in knock-knee the pressure in standing would be some»! ... In extreme cases of knock-knee i-- joint is often capable of sonie degree of ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1902)
"... INFANT—PROLAPSUS OF THE RECTUM—A CASE OF OSTEOMYELITIS OF THE TIBIA- NECROSIS OF THE LOWER JAW FOLLOWING MEASLES—A CASE OF knock-knee— CELLULITIS OF THE ..."

3. A Treatise on Orthopaedic Surgery by Royal Whitman (1919)
"OF the distortions of the lower extremity bow-leg and knock-knee are by far the most common, comprising about 15 per cent, of the total cases in orthopaedic ..."

4. The Diseases of Children: A Work for the Practising Physician by Meinhard von Pfaundler, Arthur Schlossmann (1912)
"GENU VALGUM (knock-knee) Genu valgum is an outward deviation of the leg. The leg appears to incline inward from the side in the region of the knee and forms ..."

5. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1876)
"On a New Operation for the Cure of certain Cases of Aggravated "Knock-Knee." By THOMAS ANNANDALE, FRSE, Surgeon to the Royal Infirmary, and Lecturer on ..."

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