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Your knee's shock absorber, shaped like a crescent moon with zero tolerance for twisting lunges.
means A crescent-shaped piece of cartilage that cushions a joint, or — in liquids — the curved surface a liquid forms where it meets a container's walls.
from From Greek 'meniskos,' meaning 'little moon' or 'crescent,' itself a diminutive of 'mene,' moon. The word first described crescent-shaped lenses, then got borrowed by anatomists for the crescent-shaped cartilage pads in joints, and by physicists for the curved skin water forms in a glass — all sharing that same sliver-of-moon silhouette.
- material
- rubbery cartilage, not bone
- blood supply
- only outer third heals itself
- double duty
- you have two per knee
- liquid cousin
- same word describes curved liquid surfaces