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    COXA

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    Irregular inflected form: coxae  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    The ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulumplay

    Synonyms:

    articulatio coxae; coxa; hip; hip joint

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting body parts

    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)

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