hip joint
a ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the innominate bone.
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Using the updated dimensions, and his colleagues multiplied the length of the dinosaur’s foot by a factor of four, which gave them the rough length of the leg up the hip joint.
After 60 years, a mysterious Australian dinosaur just got downsized | Margo Milanowski | October 22, 2021 | Popular-ScienceWhen you bend down to actually reach the ground, you have to be able to bend your hip joints forward.
Thanks to the design of its hip joints, its legs can move forward, backward, or side to side.
This Robot Taught Itself to Run, Then Proceeded to Knock Out a 5K | Vanessa Bates Ramirez | July 28, 2021 | Singularity HubCranes and derricks improved the human arm, ball bearings improved the hip joint, and eyeglasses improved the eye.
American Dreams: ‘The Mosquito Coast’ by Paul Theroux | Nathaniel Rich | September 20, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTA hole developed, which had actually been caused by a breaking of a band of cartilage at the front of his hip joint.
A ball has entered above his hip-joint, and there is very little hope that he can recover.
Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush | William Makepeace ThackerayAnother tubercular condition is seen in the much dreaded hip-joint disease which parents should always be on the lookout for.
The Mother and Her Child | William S. SadlerA tilted slab partly covered them, but the gravel in the hole was frozen and Deering's hip-joint hurt.
Northwest! | Harold BindlossSeveral diseases and lesions of the hip-joint, and of the thigh, may also do the same, and should therefore be suspected.
Palming a wrench, he was swiftly loosening the main retaining nut on his hip joint.
The Velvet Glove | Harry Harrison
British Dictionary definitions for hip joint
the ball-and-socket joint that connects each leg to the trunk of the body, in which the head of the femur articulates with the socket (acetabulum) of the pelvis
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