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. 2013 Feb 21;8(2):e57683. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057683

Figure 1. Scaling of the knee joint.

Figure 1

The total average width of the articulating lateral and medial condyles per species follows an isometric relationship with body mass (a = 0.337, R2 = 0.96), illustrating the isometric scaling of the entire skeleton. Image shows the lateral and medial condyles of a cheetah.