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noun

Patella n. (pl. patellae)

A small dish, pan, or vase.

(Anat.) The kneecap; the kneepan; the cap of the knee.

(Zool.) A genus of marine gastropods, including many species of limpets. The shell has the form of a flattened cone. The common European limpet (Patella vulgata) is largely used for food.

(Bot.) A kind of apothecium in lichens, which is orbicular, flat, and sessile, and has a special rim not a part of the thallus.

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Etymology of 'Patella'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Patella" Quotes from Famous Books

... facts were adduced. Let it be borne in mind that 'Avicula', 'Mytails', 'Chiton', 'Natica', 'Patella', 'Trochus', 'Discina', 'Orbicula', 'Lingula', 'Rhynchonella', and 'Nautilus', all of which are existing 'genera', are given without a doubt as Silurian in the last edition of 'Siluria'; while the highest forms of the highest Cephalopods are represented in the Lias ...

— Geological Contemporaneity and Persistent Types of Life • Thomas H. Huxley

... similar facts were adduced. Let it be borne in mind that Avicula, Mytilus, Chiton, Natica, Patella, Trochus, Discina, Orbicula, Lingula, Rhynchonclla, and Nautilus, all of which are existing genera, are given without a doubt as Silurian in the last edition of "Siluria"; while the highest forms of the highest Cephalopods are represented in the Lias by a genus Belemnoteuthis, which ...

— Discourses - Biological and Geological Essays • Thomas H. Huxley

... emphasizing the importance of wounds of the patella and knee-joint and the necessity for their careful treatment, also declares that wounds of both the leg and thigh within three inches of the joints, or in the fleshy portion of the thigh ubi organum est ...

— Gilbertus Anglicus - Medicine of the Thirteenth Century • Henry Ebenezer Handerson