PATELLA

Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1854 · p. 24

The small, flat, and somewhat heart shaped bone, which is placed at the fore part of the knee joint, and commonly called the kneepan. PATELLOIDS, Patelloidea. The name of a family of the Cyclo branchiate type. Gastropods, having the limpet (Patella) as [s. 920]