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The patella is the small, flat, roundish bone at the front of your knee — the one you can feel with your fingers, that slides a little when you bend your leg. Doctors and biology teachers say patella; almost everyone else says . If you hurt it, a hospital may talk about a fractured patella or a dislocated patella. It is a Latin clinic-and-classroom word, not a kitchen-table word. Though actually, the Romans used the same word for a small pan or dish; the bone is shaped a bit like a shallow plate, which is why the name stuck.
髕骨（日常說膝蓋骨）
組成From Latin patella (“a small pan or dish; the kneepan”), diminutive of patina (“a broad shallow dish, pan”). Doublet of paella.
同家族的字
- paelladoublet: both go back to Latin patella/patina, a shallow pan
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Patellaname
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A surname from Italian.
patellanoun詞源 1/pəˈtɛlə/
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anatomymedicinesciencesThe sesamoid bone of the knee; the kneecap.
- Subluxed patellas, more commonly referred to as slipped stifles, like all inherited factors will continue to cripple a breed as long as breeders continue to mate affected animals.
- 2005, Roger E. Stevenson, 20: Limbs, Roger E. Stevenson, Judith G. Hall, Human Malformations and Related Anomalies, page 920, Since patella diameter is a feature of continuous variation, the majority of small patellas represent simply the lower extreme of normal anatomic variation.
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A little dish or vase.
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biologymycologynatural-sciencesAn orbicular sessile apothecium, with a marginal rim distinct from the thallus.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。