COTYLOID CAVITY
Dictionary entry overview: What does cotyloid cavity mean? • COTYLOID CAVITY (noun)
The noun COTYLOID CAVITY has 1 sense:
1. the cup-shaped hollow in the hipbone into which the head of the femur fits to form a ball-and-socket joint
Familiarity information: COTYLOID CAVITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• COTYLOID CAVITY (noun)
Meaning:
The cup-shaped hollow in the hipbone into which the head of the femur fits to form a ball-and-socket joint
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Synonyms:
acetabulum; cotyloid cavity
Hypernyms ("cotyloid cavity" is a kind of...):
socket (a bony hollow into which a structure fits)
Holonyms ("cotyloid cavity" is a part of...):
hipbone; innominate bone (large flaring bone forming one half of the pelvis; made up of the ilium and ischium and pubis)
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