articulatio coxae

1. 1.

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

   Synonymshiphip jointcoxa

   Broaderball-and-socket joint

   Part ofthighpelvis

   Partsischium

Questions about articulatio coxae

What does articulatio coxae mean?

articulatio coxae means "the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum".

What is another word for articulatio coxae?

Close synonyms include hip, hip joint, coxa. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is articulatio coxae a common word?

articulatio coxae is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.