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Definition of Patellar
1. Adjective. Near or relating to the patella or kneecap. "Patellar tendon"
Definition of Patellar
1. a. Of or pertaining to the patella, or kneepan.
Definition of Patellar
1. Adjective. near or relating to the patella or kneecap ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Patellar
1. patella [adj] - See also: patella
Medical Definition of Patellar
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Literary usage of Patellar
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1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"(a) The Knee-jerk or patellar Reflex This reflex, which consists of a contraction
of the M. quadriceps on tapping the patellar tendon, may he tested either ..."
2. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1885)
"The Relation of Ankle-clonus to the patellar Reflex.—M. Maurice de Fleury of
Bordeaux contributes a few notes of interest on this point. ..."
3. Human Vitality and Efficiency Under Prolonged Restricted Diet by Francis Gano Benedict (1919)
"Physiologists, however, who have worked with human reflexes, and specifically
with the patellar reflex, have soon discovered that this is not a constant hi ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"Moreover, cases of complete hysterical anesthesia and paraplegia commonly exhibit
the patellar reflex. Nor is hypotonia incompatible with the ..."
5. Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society Annual Meeting by American Ophthalmological Society (1893)
"In some of the cases in the second stage of the disease, especially when the
patellar-tendon reflexes were unequally exaggerated, there appeared to be an ..."
6. Psychological Effects of Alcohol: An Experimental Investigation of the by Raymond Dodge, Francis Gano Benedict (1915)
"VARIABILITY OF THE patellar REFLEX. In all the studies of the patellar reflex its
... Since the patellar reflex is not essential to any known vital process, ..."
7. Effect of Alcohol on Psycho-physiological Functions by Walter Richard Miles (1918)
"patellar REFLEX. The patellar-reflex data are given in tables 3 and 4, ...
The patellar reflex was the first one of the group of ten different measurements ..."
8. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1882)
"Charcot may have used the patellar-reflex in diagnosis before this period, but
undoubtedly the profession at large was first made aware of its importance by ..."
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