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noun
The basal segment of a limb of various arthropods (insects and spiders, for example).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: hip, hip joint, articulatio coxae
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: ball-and-socket joint, spheroid joint, cotyloid joint, enarthrodial joint, enarthrosis, articulatio spheroidea
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *koḱs- Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-eh2 Proto-Indo-European *kóḱseh2 Proto-Italic *koksā Latin coxalbor. English coxa Learned borrowing from Latin coxa, from Proto-Italic *koksā, from Proto-Indo-European *kóḱseh2, from *koḱs- (“joint, limb”) + *-eh2. Doublet of cuisse.
Across languages
8 source translations are retained for this English entry.
