noun. The hip or hip joint.

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

noun. The femur or thigh-bone.

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

noun. The hip-joint.

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

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

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

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

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

"MH1 has a good specimen of the os coxa bone, more commonly known as “the hip bone”, which is, funnily enough, the “relevant hip bone” for diagnosing locomotion."

articulatio spheroidea  ball and socket joint  cotyloid joint  enarthrodial joint  enarthrosis  

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