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n. Anatomy The hip or hip joint.

n. Zoology The first segment of the leg of an insect or other arthropod, joining the leg to the body.

n. The basal segment of a limb of various arthropods (insects and spiders, for example).

n. The first joint of the leg of an insect or crustacean.

n. The femur or thigh-bone.

n. In anatomy: The hipbone, os coxæ or os innominatum.

n. The hip-joint.

n. In entomology, the first or basal joint (sometimes called the hip) of an insect's leg, by which it is articulated to the body.

n. The basal joint of the leg of a spider or a crustacean; a coxopodite (which see).

n. the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum

"He devised a new treatment for «pes varus» and published a well-illustrated work on phosphorus necrosis and another on coxa vara."

spheroid joint    enarthrodial joint    ball and socket joint    enarthrosis    articulatio spheroidea    cotyloid joint   

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