acetabular
Americanadjective
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The acetabulum is further deepened by the acetabular labrum, a fibrocartilage lip attached to the outer margin of the acetabulum.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
The angles formed by the roof lines crossing the centre line the doctors call the acetabular index.
From Time Magazine Archive
The dorsal acetabular expansion of the ilia is moderately low in taurinus and verrucigerus, but distinctly lower in buckleyi and leprieurii.
From A Synopsis of Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Osteocephalus by Duellman, William E.
If luxation is downward, traction on the extremity will tend to dislodge the head of the femur from the inferior acetabular margin making reduction possible.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by Lacroix, John Victor
In Crocodiles the bone below the acetabular cup is not divided into two parts.
From Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by Seeley, H. G.
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