trochanter
IPA: trˈɑtʃˈæntɝ
noun
- (anatomy) In vertebrates with legs, the end of the femur near the hip joint, not including the head or neck.
- In some arthropods, the second segment of the leg, between the coxa and the femur.
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Examples of "trochanter" in Sentences
- Trochanter is a part of the thigh bone.
- As present is a fracture of the greater trochanter.
- They insert on the greater trochanter of the femur.
- The depression over great trochanter is generally omitted.
- Fulcrant: the trochanter when continued along the femur, as in
- A bursa is interposed between the tendon and the greater trochanter.
- Ditrocha: Hymenoptera; that series having the trochanter two-jointed.
- The fourth trochanter is a shared characteristic common to archosaurs.
- Hence, the affected leg is shortened, and the greater trochanter prominent.
- In order from the body they are the coxa, trochanter, femur, tibia, and tarsus.
- Everyone knows the greater trochanter is on the lateral edge of the humerus, rather than the medial.
- Monotrocha - ous: Hymenoptera in which the trochanters are single: having legs in which the trochanter is one-jointed.
- Apophysis: the lower of the two joints of trochanter in ditrocha trochanterellus; the dorso-lateral metathoracic spines in
- Varon Dn. Cristobal Colon, 'and in the said box human remains which on examination by the licentiate of equal class Jose de Jesus Brenes are found to be: A femur deteriorated in the upper part of the neck, between the great trochanter and its head.
- Femur - ora: the thigh: usually the stoutest segment of the leg, articulated to the body through trochanter and coxa and bearing the tibia at its distal end: in Coccidae and quite commonly, the femur and trochanter are considered as one, for measuring purposes.
- Feet: the legs or organs of locomotion; one pair attached to each thoracic segment; composed of coxa, trochanter, femur, tibia and tarsus only; plural of foot; q.v. Female: designated by "O+" the astronomical sign for Venus: that sex in which the ova are developed.
- The bed is a mat made of rushes sewn together with twine; the hip-bone soon becomes sore on the hard flat surface, as we are not allowed to make a hole in the floor to receive the prominent part called trochanter by anatomists, as we do when sleeping on grass or sand.
- A bone implant fixation plate having an angled bend intermediate its ends provides improved structure for fixation of the greater trochanter to the femur. Hollow pins are fixed to the intermediate bend for fixation in drilled holes in the greater trochanter by a flaring tool.
- Tainotherium differs from other West Indian species in possessing a large femoral head, a proximally angled femoral neck, a short greater trochanter and a medially positioned lesser trochanter unconnected by an intertrochanteric crest, and a transversely flattened, anteroposteriorly bowed shaft lacking well-defined ridges.
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