innominate

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The cup-shaped cavity of the innominate bone for receiving the head of the femur.

From A Practical Physiology by Blaisdell, Albert F.

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)

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)

The glittering west-dust of a hidden innominate sun.

From The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days. by Hubbard, Elbert

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