Prepatellar bursitis (also known as beat knee, carpet layer's knee, coal miner's knee, housemaid's knee, rug cutter's knee, or nun's knee) is an inflammation of the prepatellar bursa at the front of the knee.ts purpose is to reduce friction between adjacent structures. The prepatellar bursa is one of several bursae of the knee joint, and is located between the patella and the skin. Prepatellar bursitis is an inflammation of this bursa. Bursae are readily inflamed when irritated, as their walls are very thin.
Stoic is a word often used to describe people who show their emotions very little or do not talk much. While it has this everyday meaning, Stoicism was actually a Philosophy followed by a number of ancient Greeks and Romans which was meant to make people happier by teaching them to control their negative emotions.
Etymology [edit]. The term philosophy is taken from the Greek word, (phylos) meaning to love or to befriend and, (sophie) meaning wisdom.. Thus, philosophy means the love of wisdom.Socrates, a Greek philosopher, used the term philosophy as an equivalent to the search for wisdom.Also, the term wisdom is used as a general term for describing the intellectual probing of any idea.ut one of the characteristics of philosophy is that definitions are difficult, not just the definition of philosophy, but the definition of anything. To return to the definition of philosophy, in the Phaedo.