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This bone of the knee is the largest and strongest bone in the body.
What is the Femur?
This ligament is located on the medial side of the knee.
What is the MCL?
This is the number of muscles that make up the hamstring muscle group.
What is 3?
The knee is considered this type of joint.
What is a hinge joint?
What are the discs inside the knee called?
What are meniscii
This bone of the knee is considered a sesamoid bone.
These are the two collateral ligaments.
What are the MCL and LCL?
A group of 4 muscles make up what muscle group of the leg?
What is the quadriceps muscle group?
This is also known as the cartilage of the knee and can be separated into medial and lateral sides.
What are the meniscus?
How many discs are inside the knee?
What is two.
This bone of the knee is the attachment site for the distal end of the LCL.
What is the Fibula?
This ligament of the knee attaches on the anterior portion of the tibia and runs front to back.
What is the ACL?
This muscle group causes knee flexion.
What is the hamstring muscle group?
These ligaments limit motion of the knee when going in a side-to-side direction.
What are the collateral ligaments (MCL, LCL)?
What are the names of the discs inside of the knee?
This bone of the knee is the attachment site for the distal end of the MCL.
The function of these two ligaments is to prevent anterior and posterior movement of the femur or tibia.
What are the ACL and PCL?
This motion is created by the quadriceps muscle group.
What is knee extension?
This is the tendon directly distal to the knee cap.
What is the patellar tendon?
What shape are the discs?
What is "C" shaped, or crescent shaped.
The distal end of this bone forms the medial and lateral condyles.
What is the Femur?
The "C" in ACL and PCL stands for this.
What is cruciate?
This muscle of the quadriceps is located on the medial side of the thigh.
What is vastus medialis?
What three muscles make up the hamstring muscle group.
What are the 1) Biceps Femoris 2) Semitendinosus 3) Semimembranosus
Which of the discs is most commonly injured?
What is the medial meniscus.