housemaid's knee

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

Translations

swelling of the bursa before the kneecap

• Armenian: ծնկոսկրի բորբոքում n (cnkoskri borbokʻum)
• Irish: glúinteas m
• Russian: воспаление коленной чашечки n (vospalenije kolennoj čašečki)
• Swedish: skurknä n

Further reading

• housemaid's knee on Wikipedia.Wikipedia