[f. KNEE sb. + PAN.]
1. The bone in front of the knee-joint; the patella, knee-cap.
14[?]. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 590/18. Internodium, the knepanne, or wherlebon.
1565. Golding, Ovid’s Met., VIII. (1593), 206. Hir leannesse made her joints bolne big and kneepannes for to swell.
1688. Lond. Gaz., No. 2406/4. The Bone in one of his Legs sticks out below his Knee-Pan.
1881. Mivart, Cat, 108–9. The articular surfaces of the condyles … form an elongated, transversely concave, ascending articular surface … for the knee-pan.
2. Entom. ‘A concavity at the apex of the thigh, underneath, to receive the base of the Tibia’ (Kirby & Sp., Entomol. (1826), III. 384).
