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knock-knee
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knock-knee

Condition in which the knees are close together and the feet widely separated. Infants are usually knock-kneed during their first few years of walking, but newborn babies are usually bow-legged.

Knock-knees (Latin genu valgum) and bow-legs (genu varum) can result from nutritional deficiency diseases, such as rickets, now rare in Western countries, and in adults from rheumatoid arthritis or osteoarthritis in the knee, or from fractures of the bones about the knee.



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Genu valgum (knock knees) is when the tibia is bent away from the midline of the patient in relation to the knee joint.
Additionally, research is needed to determine whether a relationship exists between gross motor abilities and other impairments frequently seen in children with Hurler syndrome such as genu valgum,
The patient was also noted to have genu varum on the right and genu valgum on the left, along with a prominent lumbar
 
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