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COXA
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Irregular inflected form: coxae
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum
Synonyms:
articulatio coxae; coxa; hip; hip joint
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("coxa" is a kind of...):
articulatio spheroidea; ball-and-socket joint; cotyloid joint; enarthrodial joint; enarthrosis; spheroid joint (a freely moving joint in which a sphere on the head of one bone fits into a rounded cavity in the other bone)
Meronyms (parts of "coxa"):
ischial bone; ischium; os ischii (one of the three sections of the hipbone; situated below the ilium)
Holonyms ("coxa" is a part of...):
thigh (the part of the leg between the hip and the knee)
hip; pelvic arch; pelvic girdle; pelvis (the structure of the vertebrate skeleton supporting the lower limbs in humans and the hind limbs or corresponding parts in other vertebrates)
