housemaid's knee

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English

Etymology

So called because it used to be prevalent among housemaids, who spent time kneeling on floors to clean them.

Noun

housemaid's knee (countable and uncountable, plural housemaid's knees)

  1. (pathology) swelling of the bursa before the kneecap.
    Synonym: prepatellar bursitis

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