Knee Joint
- Biology
- Class 4–8
- 3D model
- AR card
- English
See how the thigh bone and shin bone meet at a joint that mainly bends and straightens.
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Also called
knee
What to look for
- The femur is the thigh bone and the tibia is the main shin bone.
- The knee mainly bends and straightens, with a small amount of rotation.
- Cartilage and the menisci help the joint move and distribute loads.
Try this
Locate the two large bones. Which one continues up the thigh?
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About this model
A GLB file of about 85 KB, 22,892 triangles, shown in Lably's 3D viewer and, on a phone, placed in your room with AR. Credit: Organ model: HuBMAP Human Reference Atlas — CCF 3D Reference Object Library. Kristen Browne et al., NIH/NIAID; derived from the NLM Visible Human Project. CC BY 4.0. | CC BY 4.0 | https://humanatlas.io/3d-reference-library | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
