knee joint

Questions about knee joint

What does knee joint mean?

knee joint means "hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella".

What is another word for knee joint?

Close synonyms include knee, human knee, articulatio genus, genu. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is knee joint a common word?

knee joint is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.