English > hip: 6 senses > noun 2, body| Meaning | The structure of the vertebrate skeleton supporting the lower limbs in humans and the hind limbs or corresponding parts in other vertebrates. |
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| Synonyms | pelvis, pelvic girdle, pelvic arch |
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| Part of | appendicular skeleton | The part of the skeleton that includes the pectoral girdle and the pelvic girdle and the upper and lower limbs |
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| Parts | coccyx, tail bone | The end of the vertebral column in humans and tailless apes |
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| hip, hip joint, coxa, articulatio coxae | The ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum |
| hipbone, innominate bone | large flaring bone forming one half of the pelvis |
| ilium | The upper and widest of the three bones making up the hipbone |
| ischium, ischial bone, os ischii | One of the three sections of the hipbone |
| pubis, pubic bone, os pubis | One of the three sections of the hipbone |
| sacrum | wedge-shaped bone consisting of five fused vertebrae forming the posterior part of the pelvis |
| Broader | girdle | An encircling or ringlike structure |
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| Spanish | cintura pélvica, pelvis |
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| Catalan | pelvis |
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English > hip: 6 senses > noun 3, body| Meaning | The ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum. |
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| Synonyms | hip joint, coxa, articulatio coxae |
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| Part of | pelvis, pelvic girdle, pelvic arch, hip | The structure of the vertebrate skeleton supporting the lower limbs in humans and the hind limbs or corresponding parts in other vertebrates |
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| thigh | The part of the leg between the hip and the knee |
| Parts | ischium, ischial bone, os ischii | One of the three sections of the hipbone |
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| Broader | ball-and-socket joint, spheroid joint, cotyloid joint, enarthrodial joint, enarthrosis, articulatio spheroidea | A freely moving joint in which a sphere on the head of one bone fits into a rounded cavity in the other bone |
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| Spanish | articulación de la cadera, articulatio coxae, cadera, coxal, coxa, coxofemoral |
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| Catalan | coxal, coxa, maluc |
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| Adjectives | sciatic | of or relating to the ischium (or the part of the hipbone containing it) |
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