bifurcated patella?

Student Judd · Joined: 14 May 2008 Posts: 4

Is my teacher pulling my leg ( no pun intended). What is a bifurcated patella? A split or broken patella, I can’t find any info on it. Is it called something else

tomas · Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Posts: 10

This is a joining member for a knee stabilizer.

tomas · Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Posts: 10

could also mean the patella has been split in two.

hjhogle · Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 12:12 pm Post subject:

Actually, the correct terminology is bipartite. (bipartitie =consisting of two parts). A congenital anomaly , occurs in something less than 1% of the adult population (could be wrong, anatomy was a long time ago!)

hjh, RT