Stifle

An Illustrated Dictionary of Medicine, Biology and Allied Sciences · 1907 · p. 46

(sti'fl). 1. To choke up; to kill by impeding respiration. 2. The stifle-joint. q. v. 3. Disease or other affection of the stifle-bone, q. v. S.-bone, the patella of the horse. S. -joint, the knee-joint of the horse.