knee-joint

Other less-common -clast words include mythoclast (someone who destroys myths), genuclast (a medical instrument for breaking knee-joint adhesions) and bioclast (a piece of shell or a fossil in a sedimentary rock).

Week in Words Erin McKean 2012

The mammoth raised itself half-heartedly up onto one knee-joint, and the floor shook.

Stalling 2010

It is wrong to turn everything upside down in an unwarranted knee-joint reaction to correct the uncorrectable.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

It is wrong to turn everything upside down in an unwarranted knee-joint reaction to correct the uncorrectable.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

The bands then should be fastened, not only at the foot, but also above the knee, so that the force of the extension may not be expended on the knee-joint more than upon the hip-joint.

On The Articulations 2007

The splints, in fact, should be carefully kept off the naked parts at both ends; and the arrangement of them should be so managed, as that they may not be placed on the natural protuberances of the bone at the knee-joint, nor on the tendon which is situated there.

On Fractures 2007

For the knee-joint, in proportion to its size, is more compact than that of the arm, and has a more even conformation, and is rounded, while the joint of the arm is large, and has many cavities.

On Fractures 2007

That stiffness about the arm, hip, and knee-joint which was apparent when he walked was the net product of the divers sprains and over-exertions that had been required of him in handling trees and timber when a young man, for he was of the sort called self-made, and had worked hard.

The Woodlanders 2006

But their being bipeds and able to stand is above all due to their having the hip-bone shaped like a thigh, and so large that it looks as if they had two thighs, one in the leg before the knee-joint, the other joining his part to the fundament.

On the Gait of Animals 2002

But their being bipeds and able to stand is above all due to their having the hip-bone shaped like a thigh, and so large that it looks as if they had two thighs, one in the leg before the knee-joint, the other joining his part to the fundament.

On the Gait of Animals 2002