cotyloid

How to use cotyloid in a sentence

• The deep cotyloid cavity renders disarticulation difficult and luxation does not often take place.

  Lameness of the Horse | John Victor Lacroix

• Very often a fourth pelvic element, the acetabular or cotyloid bone, occurs.

  The Vertebrate Skeleton | Sidney H. Reynolds

• In Ornithorhynchus the cotyloid or os acetabuli is a larger element of the girdle than is the pubis.

  The Cambridge Natural History, Vol X., Mammalia | Frank Evers Beddard

• They are sucked up by two cupping vessels, (“cotyloid”—cup-like—cavities,) and held there as long as you live, and longer.

  The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table | Oliver Wendell Holmes