Crossword-Solution: ACETABULUM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Acetabulum | n. | A vinegar cup; socket of the hip bone; a measure of about one eighth of a pint, etc. |
| Acetabulum | n. | The bony cup which receives the head of the thigh bone. |
| Acetabulum | n. | The cavity in which the leg of an insect is inserted at its articulation with the body. |
| Acetabulum | n. | A sucker of the sepia or cuttlefish and related animals. |
| Acetabulum | n. | The large posterior sucker of the leeches. |
| Acetabulum | n. | One of the lobes of the placenta in ruminating animals. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “ACETABULUM”
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| HIPBONE that receives the femur, lateral surface of the | 1 answer |
| LATERAL surface of the hip bone that receives the femur | 1 answer |
| a cuplike hollow on the hipbone to receive the thighbone | 1 answer |
| crystalline substance | 11 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with ACETABULUM (5)
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.
Its upper end has a rounded head which fits into the _acetabulum_, or the deep cup-like cavity of the hip bone, forming a perfect ball-and-socket joint.
The femeropelvic articulation is formed by the hemispherical head of the femur and the acetabulum; the latter constituting a cotyloid cavity which is deepened by the cotyloid ligament.
The joint capsule encompasses the articulation and is attached to the brim of the acetabulum and the edge of the head of the femur.