ACETABULUM
\ˌasɪtˈabjʊləm], \ˌasɪtˈabjʊləm], \ˌa_s_ɪ_t_ˈa_b_j_ʊ_l_ə_m]\
Definitions of ACETABULUM
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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The bony cup which receives the head of the thigh bone.
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The cavity in which the leg of an insect is inserted at its articulation with the body.
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A sucker of the sepia or cuttlefish and related animals.
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The large posterior sucker of the leeches.
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The bony cup which receives the head of the thigh bone.
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The cavity in which the leg of an insect is inserted at its articulation with the body.
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A sucker of the sepia or cuttlefish and related animals.
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The large posterior sucker of the leeches.
By Noah Webster.
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Cotyloid cavity, a cup-shaped depression on the external surface of the innominate bone, in which the head of the femur fits.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
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A cavity in a bone for receiving the end of another bone; also a glandular substance found in the placenta of some animals.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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In zool., applied to such organs as the cuplike sucking-discs on the arms of the cuttlefish; in anat., the socket of the hip-joint; plu. Acetabula.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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The socket for the head of the femur, situated at the junction of the ilium, ischium, and pubis, all of which may or may not take part in its formation; in insects, the cavity of the thorax formed by the epimeron, sternum, and occasionally epigastrium, in which the legs are inserted; the large posterior sucker in leeches; one of the cotyledons of the ruminant placenta; the sucker on the arms of a Cephalopod.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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A measure capable of containing the eighth part of a modern pint.-Athenaeus. Galen. See Cotyloid. According to Castelli, the lobes or cotyledons of the placentae of ruminating animals have been so called.
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Cotyle, see Cotyloid-a. Humeri, see Glenoid-a. Marinum, Umbilicus marinus.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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