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.

Autopsy: Aortic and innominate aneurysm, hypertrophy and dilatation of heart.

From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various

The pelvic girdle consists of two large bones of irregular shape, called the innominate bones.

From Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools by Walters, Francis M.

Dr. Peixotto of Portugal applied a precautionary ligature to the innominate in a case where secondary hæmorrhage occurred from the carotid.

From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Bell, Joseph

This was no London that he knew, this scented city of Spring, this tropic gloom, this mad innominate cavern that engorged them.

From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton