vocal adjective (OF THE VOICE) âº relating to or produced by the voice, either in singing or speaking: a piece of vocal music. The six principal roles in this opera have an average vocal range of two octaves. More examples. There was a soft nodule on my vocal cord. Her remarkable vocal range spanned three and a half octaves.
Signs that it might be time for a knee replacement: 1  Your pain persists or recurs over time. 2  Your knee aches during and after exercise. 3  Youâre no longer as mobile as youâd like to be.  Medication and using a cane arenât delivering enough 1  relief. Your knee stiffens up from sitting in a car or a movie theater.  You feel pain in rainy weather.
Total knee replacement may be done on people, usually over 55, whose knees have been damaged by arthritis, trauma, or other destructive diseases of the joint resulting in severe limiting knee pain and significant stiffness, instability (constant giving way) and deformity (lock-knees or bowlegs) of the knee.