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kneecap
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kneecap (patella), saucer-shaped bone at the front of the knee joint; it protects the ends of the femur, or thighbone, and the tibia, the large bone of the foreleg. The kneecap is embedded in the tendon tissue of the quadriceps femoris, a large thigh muscle. As the leg bends and straightens, the kneecap glides up and down in a groove of the femur. Dislocation of the kneecap is a common athletic injury, occurring when stress on the powerful extensor muscles that straighten the leg pulls the kneecap to one side. See skeleton skeleton, in anatomy, the stiff supportive framework of the body. The two basic types of skeleton found among animals are the exoskeleton and the endoskeleton. The shell of the clam is an exoskeleton composed primarily of calcium carbonate.
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A CONTROVERSIAL REPORTER for one of the nation's leading newspapers stumbles onto what at first looks like a routine Washington story but eventually, after two years of mounting federal inquiry, becomes a wide-reaching scandal that rocks the very foundations of the White House, kneecapping the second presidential term of a big-government Republican hell-bent on expanding executive power.
From Bob Woodward to Judith Miller: the country's most reviled ... by Welch, Matt / Reason
More unfavorable stories followed both in print and on network TV, effectively kneecapping Brown's efforts to maintain his base and recruit new blood.
HE WANTS TO LIVE FOREVER : IMMORTALITY MOVEMENT LEADER SURVIVES ... by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Public broadcasting's original structure and the kneecapping it got from Nixon pushed it in the direction of what broadcasting scholar Erik Barnouw calls the "safely splendid.
Will public broadcasting survive? by Aufderheide, Pat / The Progressive
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