Does the human knee bone, the patella, connect to any other bone?
Question #101780. Asked by dac1964.
Last updated Feb 02 2018.
neelie_447
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neelie_447 18 year member
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Answer has 8 votes.
It is attached, but by tendons instead of ligaments.
"The patella claims for itself alone that it is not attached to another bone by ligaments but is connected by the tendons which bypass the knee joint 10 and is very powerfully bound to the femur."