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The knee itself is made of ligaments cartilage and bone, and the kneecap is made of bone.
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Is the tendon bone supposed to move around?
By tendon bone, do you mean patella at the knee. If so, yes there is some movement.
What is an ossicle in the elbow?
An accessory ossicle of the elbow is a small bone that was formed during embryonic development in addition to the normal bones.However the term can also mean:A bone spur in the elbow joint areaA bone fragment in the elbow joint area
What joins bones to bones?
A Ligament or sometimes a Joint or a tendon Attaches a Bone to another Bone. A Tendon attaches a Bone to a Muscle.
What is the name of the tendon on the side of the knee?
The bone in your knee, or knee cap is also called a patella. This bone sits in ligaments between the femur and the tibia.
What is the Latin name for the knee?
Patella!! ---- There are three bones that make up the knee joint: the distal end of the femur, the proximal end of the tibia, and the patella, which is a sesamoid bone within the quadriceps tendon that helps provide better leverage for extension of the knee.
What part of the skeleton is a ball and socket joint?
The hip bone and the shoulder bone its the knee bone joint
Is the kneecap bone or cartilage?
Palette The knee joint is the junction of three bones-the femur (thigh bone or upper leg bone), the tibia (shin bone or larger bone of the lower leg), and the patella (kneecap). The patella is about 2 to 3 inches wide and 3 to 4 inches long. It sits over the other bones at the front of the knee joint and slides when the leg moves. It protects the knee and gives leverage to muscles.The knee as a whole is more a joint.The knee cap is called a patella (bone).
What are the things that join the bones?
a joint or a tendon or a ligament can join the bone with other bone or with a muscle
What bone is the knee bone connected to?
There is a knee cap, formally known as the patella, which is not a bone, and is not connected to any bones, it just floats over them as a form of protection. There is no knee bone. The knee is a joint, not a bone.
Name three types of articulations in the body?
The three functional articulations are synarthrosis which is an immovable join and example would be a suture, amphiarthrosis a slightly immovable joint an example is the symphysis, and last the diarthrosis a freely movable joint such as the elbow or knee joint.
What bone covers a joint?
the patella covers the top of the knee joint.
What is the flat triangular bone in the front of your knee joint?
The patella is the flat triangular bone in front of your knee joint. The patella is called the kneecap in lay language.
