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What is the flat triangular bone located in the front of your knee joint?
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The patella or kneecap
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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.
Where is tibia bone found?
It is the triangular bone which is at the front between your ankle and your knee.
The scientific name for a kneecap?
The scientific name for a kneecap is "patella." It is a small, flat triangular bone that sits at the front of the knee joint and helps protect the knee and assist in movement.
The triangle shaped bone in your upper back is called?
The triangular bone in your upper back is called the SCAPULA, more commonly known as the shoulder blade, which connects the humerus (upper arm bone) to the clavicle (collar bone).
Is patella a type of pasta?
No, The patella or kneecap is a thick, triangular bone which articulates with the femur and covers and protects the knee joint.
Is sacroiliac joint in the back?
Yes sacroiliac joint are located at the back within the pelvis bone.
What is the round flat bone that protects the joint between your upper and lower leg bone?
The bone that is located between the upper and lower "leg bone" (the patella) is triangular shaped, not flat (the point of the triangle faces back), and is more square shaped when viewed head on than round. It's function is to help to keep the quadriceps tendon in line, not to protect the joint. If this is the homework question that it appears to be then I would have serious doubts about the person who asked it.
Does the axis form a joint with the hip bone?
No, the axis is located in the neck.
Where on the human body is the elbow joint located?
The elbow joint is located between the upper arm bone (humerus) in the lower arm bones (ulna and radius).
Where is the zygomatic bone?
The zygomatic bone is located in the front part of your skull and is part of your cheeckbone. This bone is near your eye, but located right underneath of it.
Is the shin bone a piviot joint?
The tibia, or shin bone, is not a joint.
What is the shape of the shoulder bone?
triangular
