How to Use patella in a Sentence

patella

noun
  • Slater tore the patella tendon in his left knee.
    — Jay Paris, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Team physicians were able to get his patella back in place on the field.
    — Dave Skretta, The Denver Post, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Dale sustained a patella tendon strain late in the first half and didn’t return.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Sep. 2019
  • The procedure took bone marrow from her hip and sprinkled it on the back of her patella.
    — Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Swanson tore her patella tendon in a game against Ireland in April.
    — Simrin Singh, CBS News, 17 June 2023
  • Miller was on the DL twice last season with patella tendinitis.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 30 May 2018
  • The procedure was on his bipartite patella, or a two-part kneecap that didn’t fuse together at birth.
    — Joe Reedy, Chicago Tribune, 27 Oct. 2024
  • Swanson, however, tore her left patella tendon in the game and is out for the World Cup.
    — Sean Gregory, Time, 6 July 2023
  • Such an injury often is repaired by reattaching the tendon to the patella with sutures though drill holes in the bone.
    — Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Nov. 2021
  • Hampus Lindholm is also not with the club, most likely out for the year because of his broken patella.
    — Fluto Shinzawa, The Athletic, 9 Mar. 2025
  • Mahomes dislocated the patella in the knee while sneaking for a first down in last week’s win in Denver.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Oct. 2019
  • Zeller, who has been out with a small fracture of his right patella, is progressing and will be re-evaluated next week, the team announced.
    — oregonlive, 19 Dec. 2021
  • This was the left knee that Ohtani had surgery on in 2019 to address a bipartite patella that he was born with.
    — Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 13 June 2026
  • He was ruled out with right patella tendon soreness, leaving Milwaukee with just seven players the rest of the game.
    — Jim Owczarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 May 2021
  • That year, Adcock fractured his knee twice, tearing his patella and meniscus cartilage.
    — Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 19 Aug. 2025
  • He was born with a rare congenital knee condition called bipartite patella, in which the kneecap doesn’t fuse together.
    — Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026
  • Ohtani will need 8 to 12 weeks to recover from surgery on a bipartite patella, or a two-part kneecap that didn’t fuse together at birth.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2019
  • And Swanson’s had a long road to this moment, tearing her left patella tendon in April 2023.
    — Rachel G Bowers, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2024
  • Physicians used what is called a reduction maneuver to guide the patella back into place, and Mahomes was helped to his feet and shooed away a waiting cart.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Physicians used what is called a reduction maneuver to guide the patella back into place, and Mahomes was helped to his feet and shooed away to a waiting cart.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Oct. 2019
  • Sturm said Lindholm had suffered a lower-body injury unrelated to his broken patella.
    — Fluto Shinzawa, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The 32-year-old underwent surgery on a patella tendon rupture and had been expected to miss the remainder of the season.
    — Sam Joseph, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025
  • There have been several setbacks since the surgery, the first of which was a torn patella tendon in December 2023.
    — Corey Masisak, The Denver Post, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Carter-Williams had Platelet-Rich Plasma injections in both knees over the summer to treat patella soreness.
    — Rick Bonnell, charlotteobserver, 31 Oct. 2017
  • For the surgery, the surgeon may want a piece of you, meaning a piece of your patella or hamstring tendons to serve as a replacement ACL.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
  • In the traditional method, surgeons use a portion of the knee patella tendon to replace the ACL.
    — Ross Dellenger, SI.com, 26 Sep. 2019
  • His legs weakened after surgery to repair the patella tendon in both knees immobilized him for three months at the end of the 2016 season.
    — Matt Breen, Philly.com, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Though Ohtani underwent surgery on the same knee in 2019, that was to address bipartite patella, on the other side of the knee.
    — Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026
  • Nicolas missed last season because of a ruptured patella tendon, suffered in the final game of the 2016 season.
    — Blair Kerkhoff, kansascity, 4 May 2018
  • Hampus Lindholm had the misfortune of breaking his patella in November.
    — Fluto Shinzawa, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025

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