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  • 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

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