The Knee Learning Resource
The meniscus is the shock absorber of the knee.
In each knee there are two menisci. They fill the gap between the rounded ends of the femur bone and the flattened upper surface of the tibia bone. The one on the inner aspect of the knee is called the 'medial meniscus' and the one on the outer aspect of the knee is called the 'lateral meniscus'.
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