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acetabulum
/ˌæs.əˈtæb.jəl.əm/
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What does acetabulum mean?
noun
- The bony cup of the hip bone which receives the head of the femur.
- The cavity in which the leg of an insect is inserted at its articulation with the body.
- A sucker of the sepia or cuttlefish and related animals.
More meanings (4)
noun
- The large posterior sucker of the leeches.
- One of the lobes of the placenta in ruminating animals.
- A vinegar saucer, especially (historical) in ancient Roman contexts.
- (historical) A Roman unit of liquid measure reckoned as the volume of 2½ Roman ounces of wine and equivalent to about 66 mL although differing slightly over time.
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/ˌæs.əˈtæb.jəl.əm/
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She had an acetabulum, capsule, and ligamentum teres, but no tibia or fibula; she also had a defective right forearm.
The Sirenia form a very distinct group of the mammals, and one of the most remarkable peculiarities in existing dugong and lamentin is the entire absence of hind limbs, without even a rudiment being left; but the extinct Halitherium had, according to Professor Flower, an ossified thigh-bone “articulated to a well-defined acetabulum in the pelvis,” and it thus makes some approach to ordinary hoofed quadrupeds, to which the Sirenia are in other respects allied.