patellar tendon

continuation of the quadriceps tendon, with the patella embedded in it, inserting onto the tibial tuberosity
Thing chiral_ligament_type Q1172095
patellar tendon
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patellar tendon

Summary

patellar tendon is a chiral ligament type[1]. It draws 241 Wikipedia views per month (chiral_ligament_type category, ranking #2 of 7).[2]

Key Facts

  • patellar tendon's image is recorded as Gray345.png[3].
  • patellar tendon's instance of is recorded as chiral ligament type[4].
  • patellar tendon's instance of is recorded as class of anatomical entity[5].
  • patellar tendon's subclass of is recorded as ligament of knee joint[6].
  • patellar tendon's part of is recorded as knee joint[7].
  • patellar tendon's part of is recorded as quadriceps tendon[8].
  • patellar tendon's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D017847[9].
  • patellar tendon's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0fbfgq[10].
  • patellar tendon's MeSH tree code is recorded as A02.513.514.475[11].
  • patellar tendon's MeSH tree code is recorded as A02.835.583.512.475[12].
  • patellar tendon's MeSH tree code is recorded as A02.880.438[13].
  • patellar tendon's MeSH tree code is recorded as A10.165.669.514.475[14].
  • patellar tendon's Terminologia Anatomica 98 ID is recorded as A03.6.08.015[15].
  • patellar tendon's described by source is recorded as Gray's Anatomy (20th edition)[16].
  • patellar tendon's Foundational Model of Anatomy ID is recorded as 44581[17].
  • patellar tendon's UBERON ID is recorded as 0003676[18].
  • patellar tendon's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/11h9gltnf1[19].
  • patellar tendon's connects with is recorded as apex of patella[20].
  • patellar tendon's connects with is recorded as tuberosity of the tibia[21].
  • patellar tendon's connects with is recorded as quadriceps tendon[22].
  • patellar tendon's connects with is recorded as subcutaneous infrapatellar bursa[23].
  • patellar tendon's connects with is recorded as deep infrapatellar bursa[24].
  • patellar tendon's UMLS CUI is recorded as C0206332[25].
  • patellar tendon's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as patellar-ligament[26].
  • patellar tendon's TA98 Latin term is recorded as lig. patellae[27].

Why It Matters

patellar tendon draws 241 Wikipedia views per month (chiral_ligament_type category, ranking #2 of 7).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 17 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Foundational Model of Anatomy. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Foundational Model of Anatomy. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . ncithesaurus.nci.nih.gov. ncithesaurus.nci.nih.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . unifr.ch. unifr.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). patellar tendon. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/patellar-tendon
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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_patellar-tendon_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{patellar tendon}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/patellar-tendon}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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