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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
June 25, 2009
Location: More commonly known as your kneecap, the patella is a thick, triangular bone that makes up part of the knee joint. It is the largest sesamoid bone — a bone embedded within a tendon — in the body. It becomes hard somewhere between the age of 2 and 6.
Function: The....
