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knee joint

^ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001485

The knee joint joins the thigh with the leg and consists of two articulations: one between the femur and tibia, and one between the femur and patella. It is the largest and most complicated joint in the human body. The knee is a mobile trocho-ginglymus (i.e. a pivotal hinge joint), which permits flexion and extension as well as a slight medial and lateral rotation[WP,unvetted]. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knee ]

Synonyms: joint of knee

Term info

database cross reference
  • MESH:D007719
  • UMLS:C0022745 (ncithesaurus:Knee_Joint)
  • EFO:0001957
  • VHOG:0001003
  • galen:KneeJoint
  • MA:0000471
  • NCIT:C32898
  • GAID:114
  • Wikipedia:Knee
  • EMAPA:19137
  • FMA:35175
  • SCTID:182204005
Subsets

uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim, human_reference_atlas

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Knee.agr.jpg

has related synonym

articulatio genus

id

UBERON:0001485

prefLabel

Knee joint

present in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606