ACETABULUM
\ˌasɪtˈabjʊləm], \ˌasɪtˈabjʊləm], \ˌa_s_ɪ_t_ˈa_b_j_ʊ_l_ə_m]\
Definitions of ACETABULUM
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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The bony cup which receives the head of the thigh bone.
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The cavity in which the leg of an insect is inserted at its articulation with the body.
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A sucker of the sepia or cuttlefish and related animals.
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The large posterior sucker of the leeches.
By Oddity Software
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The bony cup which receives the head of the thigh bone.
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The cavity in which the leg of an insect is inserted at its articulation with the body.
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A sucker of the sepia or cuttlefish and related animals.
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The large posterior sucker of the leeches.
By Noah Webster.
By William R. Warner
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The socket for the head of the femur, situated at the junction of the ilium, ischium, and pubis, all of which may or may not take part in its formation; in insects, the cavity of the thorax formed by the epimeron, sternum, and occasionally epigastrium, in which the legs are inserted; the large posterior sucker in leeches; one of the cotyledons of the ruminant placenta; the sucker on the arms of a Cephalopod.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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A measure capable of containing the eighth part of a modern pint.-Athenaeus. Galen. See Cotyloid. According to Castelli, the lobes or cotyledons of the placentae of ruminating animals have been so called.
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Cotyle, see Cotyloid-a. Humeri, see Glenoid-a. Marinum, Umbilicus marinus.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland