GENU (genua)

Pronunciation (US):

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Irregular inflected form: genua   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does genu mean? 

• GENU (noun)
  The noun GENU has 1 sense:

1. hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella

  Familiarity information: GENU used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENU (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

articulatio genus; genu; human knee; knee; knee joint

Hypernyms ("genu" is a kind of...):

ginglymoid joint; ginglymus; hinge joint (a freely moving joint in which the bones are so articulated as to allow extensive movement in one plane)

Meronyms (parts of "genu"):

kneecap; kneepan; patella (a small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint)

musculus articularis genus (the articular muscle of the knee)

genicular vein; vena genus (veins that drain blood from structures around the knee; empty into the popliteal vein)

Holonyms ("genu" is a part of...):

leg (a human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part of the limb between the knee and ankle)

 Context examples 

It consists of three distinct parts: the anterior limb, posterior limb, and genu.

(Internal Capsule, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Affected individuals exhibit short stature caused by rhizomelic shortening of the limbs, characteristic facies with frontal bossing and mid-face hypoplasia, exaggerated lumbar lordosis, limitation of elbow extension, genu varum, and trident hand.

(Achondroplasia, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The main neocortical commissure of the cerebral hemispheres; it is subdivided into a genu, a rostrum, a body, and a splenium.

(Corpus Callosum, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)

An area within the corpus callosum, a white matter structure within the cleft that separates the left and right cerebral hemispheres in the mammalian brain, between the genu (anterior region) and the splenium (posterior region).

(Body of the Corpus Callosum, NCI Thesaurus)