innominate

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The edge grazed against the sheath of the innominate artery during the operation.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

When fully ossified, the arch usually consists of three principal bones on each side, the ilium, ischium, and pubis, which are often closely united in the adult, forming the innominate bone.

From The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section P and Q by Project Gutenberg

Make out the external jugular, the innominate, and its two branches, and the pulmo-cutaneous and vena cava superior.

From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Aneurysm near the origin has to be diagnosed from subclavian, innominate, and aortic aneurysm, and from other swellings—solid or fluid—met with in the neck.

From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis

The os innominatum may be so fractured that the pelvic girdle is broken, as in fracture of the iliac shaft, or in a manner that the girdling continuity of the innominate bones is not interrupted.

From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by Lacroix, John Victor