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  • My thigh has one bone; my lower leg has two bones; my knee-pan is the cap which covers and protects my knee; in my foot, near my heel, are seven bones; in the middle of my foot are five bones; my great toe has two bones; each of my other toes has three bones; making twenty-six bones in my foot.

    Object Lessons on the Human Body A Transcript of Lessons Given in the Primary Department of School No. 49, New York City Sarah F. Buckelew

  • There is no bony knee-pan, or patella, at birth, and the bones of the toes consist only of cartilage, which is translucent, and therefore not seen.

    McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896 Various

  • The hyoid bone, like the knee-pan, is not connected with any other bone.

    A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell

  • The _patella_, or knee-pan, the _two condyles of the tibia_, the

    A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell

  • Flosi snatched the spear from him, and launched it at Ingialld, and it fell on his left side, and passed through the shield just below the handle, and clove it all asunder, but the spear passed on into his thigh just above the knee-pan, and so on into the saddle-tree, and there stood fast.

    The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor Unknown

  • Without these, the constant motion of the knee-pan and its tendons in walking would produce undue friction and heat and consequent inflammation.

    A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell

  • Now, since it is settled that you probably will not want to play chess, unless you should be laid up with a bad knee-pan or something, it follows that, if you want to know anything about the sport at all, you will have to watch it from the side-lines.

    Love Conquers All Robert Benchley 1917

  • A very wicked piece of shrapnel had carried young Wetherby's knee-pan away, and, lodging in the joint, gave the sufferer excruciating agony every time he knocked it.

    With Haig on the Somme D. H. Parry 1915

  • In the end, I found myself on soft sand beside the blessed water of the creek, bloodied indeed -- for I had taken a shrewd knock on the bridge of the nose -- but with a wrenched shoulder and a jarred knee-pan for the worst of my hurts.

    Poison Island Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • He returned in 1780 with a shattered knee-pan and a young wife he had married abroad.

    Shining Ferry Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

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