innominate bone
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innominate bone
- /ɪˌnɒmɪnət ˈbəʊn/ UK
- /ɪˌnɑmɪnət ˈboʊn/ US
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From innominate (“having no name, nameless, unnamed”, adjective) + bone (noun), possibly a calque of Late Latin os innōminātum. It has been suggested that the bone “remains unnamed and unnameable” because it “is of so complex and irregular a form, that it bears no perceptible resemblance to any other known object”.
noun innominate bones
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Synonym of hip bone (“one of two roughly symmetrical parts of the skeleton, each composed of the fused iliac, ischial, and pubic bones, that together form the sides of the pelvis”).
From this second junction or plexus beneath the gluteus maximum muscle, are given usually three cutaneous nerves to the integument of the buttock: all these perforate the gluteus; one being found near the posterior superior spine of the innominate bone, another, the largest, near the end of the sacr
Similar: innominate, innominatum, os coxae, os innominatum, hip bone
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noun one of two roughly symmetrical parts of the skeleton, each composed of the fused iliac, ischial, and pubic bones (cognates) — see also hip bone
| Español | hueso innominado |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 무명뼈 mumyeongppyeo |
| Ελληνικά | ανώνυμος οστό anónymos ostó |
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