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Definition of Cotyloid
1. Adjective. Of the cup-shaped socket that receives the head of the thigh bone.
Definition of Cotyloid
1. a. Shaped like a cup; as, the cotyloid cavity, which receives the head of the thigh bone.
Definition of Cotyloid
1. Adjective. (anatomy) Shaped like a cup. ¹
2. Adjective. (anatomy) Relating to a cotyloid cavity. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cotyloid
1. cup-shaped [adj]
Medical Definition of Cotyloid
1. 1. Cup-shaped; cuplike. 2. Relating to the cotyloid cavity or acetabulum. Origin: G. Kotyle, a small cup, + eidos, appearance (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cotyloid
Literary usage of Cotyloid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, Or, Quarterly Journal of (1858)
"That Nagele is quite as wrong in maintaining that all first positions are originally
occipito-cotyloid, as that all second positions are originally ..."
2. The London Medical Gazette (1841)
"I have also another preparation in my possession, wherein the bottom part of the
cotyloid cavity is destroyed by caries forming a small opening into the ..."
3. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1910)
"It presents below a deep notch, the cotyloid notch (incisura acetabuli), ...
The cotyloid notch is converted, in the natural state, into a foramen by a ..."
4. King's American Dispensatory by John King, Harvey Wickes Felter, John Uri Lloyd (1905)
"... and about J inch in diameter, of a grayish-brown color externally, and marked
by shallow, cotyloid scape-scars, and annulated on the upper surface. ..."
5. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, Allen Thomson, George Dancer Thane (1882)
"The cotyloid ligament forms a thick fibro-cartilaginous ring round the margin
... Its fibres do not run parallel to the circumference of the cotyloid cavity ..."
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