housemaid's knee

1. 1.

   swelling of the bursa in the knee (due to trauma or excessive kneeling)

   Broaderbursitis

Questions about housemaid's knee

What does housemaid's knee mean?

housemaid's knee means "swelling of the bursa in the knee (due to trauma or excessive kneeling)".

Is housemaid's knee a common word?

housemaid's knee is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.