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HOUSEMAID'S KNEE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does housemaid's knee mean?
• HOUSEMAID'S KNEE (noun)
The noun HOUSEMAID'S KNEE has 1 sense:
1. swelling of the bursa in the knee (due to trauma or excessive kneeling)
Familiarity information: HOUSEMAID'S KNEE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Swelling of the bursa in the knee (due to trauma or excessive kneeling)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("housemaid's knee" is a kind of...):
bursitis (inflammation of a bursa; frequently in the shoulder)
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