innominate bone

Meaning

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”).

Synonyms

hipbone

hip bone

hip-bone

os coxae

coxal bone

pelvic bone

fortitude

Translations

Hüftbein

cía

cia

os de la cadera

Hüftknochen

os coxal

os de la hanche

os coxae

heupbeen

hueso de la cadera

hueso innominado

cia.

hueso coxal

Etymology

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”.