0 a Latin word meaning "of the knee", used in medical names and descriptions of the knee or a knee-like structure in the body --
Adults with uncorrected genu valgum are typically prone to injury and chronic knee problems such as chondromalacia and osteoarthritis.
Mild genu valgum can be seen in children from ages 2 to 5, and is often corrected naturally as children grow.
In the condition "genu valgum" (knock knee) the femurs converge so much that the knees touch one another.
In the general population of people without either "genu valgum" or "genu varum", the femoral-tibial angle is about 175 degrees.
Many of these concern women, who are forbidden from seeing certain "genu" (pl. "gle").
It is continued anteriorly by the subgenual area (area 25, located below the genu of the corpus callosum).
In genu recurvatum (back knee), normal extension is increased.
If the conditions persists and worsens later in life, surgery may be required to relieve pain and complications resulting from severe or hereditary genu valgum.
