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Genu   Listen
noun
Genu  n.  (pl. genua)  (Anat.)
(a)
The knee.
(b)
The kneelike bend, in the anterior part of the callosum of the brain.






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"Genu" Quotes from Famous Books



... is fibrous or osseous ankylosis, the choice lies between arthroplasty, the removal of a wedge of bone which includes the joint, or, in patients who are still growing, of a wedge from the femur above the level of the epiphysial cartilage. Backward displacement of the tibia, genu recurvatum, and genu ...
— Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition. • Alexander Miles

... only Neuters of this declension in common use are: cornu, horn; genu, knee; and ...
— New Latin Grammar • Charles E. Bennett



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