Plural of genu; the anatomical term for knees or knee-shaped structures in anatomy or biology.
From Latin 'genu' (knee), borrowed directly into English medical and anatomical terminology, with '-a' as the standard Latin plural form.
Medical Latin preserves words like this almost unchanged because doctors deliberately maintained Latin terminology to keep their field exclusive and intellectually 'pure'—though this is slowly changing in modern medicine.
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