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What is the back of the knee called in English?



 
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What is the back of the knee called in English? #1 (permalink) Sat Jul 21, 2007 15:05 pm   What is the back of the knee called in English?
 

I was reading The Guardian today and saw one person asking an interesting question: what is the back of the knee called in English? I doubt there is a word for this...
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What is the back of the knee called in English? #2 (permalink) Sat Jul 21, 2007 15:23 pm   What is the back of the knee called in English?
 

Zahir,

I yahooed "knee pit" and I found this, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knee

The term is popliteal fossa but we can also call it knee pit, although I prefer to use back of the knee.

Thanks! For such an interesting question.

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What is the back of the knee called in English? #3 (permalink) Sun Jul 22, 2007 2:30 am   What is the back of the knee called in English?
 

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Never heard of it; I just call it the back of my knee.
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What is the back of the knee called in English? #4 (permalink) Sun Jul 22, 2007 12:57 pm   What is the back of the knee called in English?
 

Hi!

"Dict.leo.org" suggests "hollow of the knee"

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What is the back of the knee called in English? #5 (permalink) Mon Jul 23, 2007 19:15 pm   What is the back of the knee called in English?
 

Thanks to all of you for your suggestions... If it was not too late we could offer our answer to The Guardian weekly...
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What is the back of the knee called in English? #6 (permalink) Mon Jul 23, 2007 21:55 pm   What is the back of the knee called in English?
 

Another term for it is the 'ham of the knee', apparently.

Never thought of giving it a name before.
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What is the back of the knee called in English? #7 (permalink) Tue Jul 24, 2007 2:36 am   What is the back of the knee called in English?
 

Fan of Arabian horses wrote:
"Dict.leo.org" suggests "hollow of the knee"

But it's not hollow.
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What is the back of the knee called in English? #8 (permalink) Thu Jul 26, 2007 22:08 pm   What is the back of the knee called in English?
 

Jamie (K) wrote:
Fan of Arabian horses wrote:
"Dict.leo.org" suggests "hollow of the knee"

But it's not hollow.


It would have turned my legs to jelly if my hollows of the knees were hollow.

Are you referring to the ambiguity of the word "hollow"?

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