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Definition of Cotyloidal
1. Adjective. Of the cup-shaped socket that receives the head of the thigh bone.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cotyloidal
Literary usage of Cotyloidal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Outlines of Oryctology: An Introduction to the Study of Fossil Organic by James Parkinson (1830)
"... which joins the ilium, and a smooth one which contributes to form the cotyloidal
cavity. From the neck there passes forwards, and a little outwards, ..."
2. The Mystery of Golf by Arnold Haultain (1912)
"The whole body must turn on the pivot of the head of the right thigh-bone working
in the cotyloidal cavity of the os ..."
3. Journal of the Board of Viticulture for Victoria by Victoria, Australia Board of viticulture (1883)
"cotyloidal cavities of 1st pair thus complete behind. ... extending forwards to
form the inner half of the cotyloidal cavities of the middle pair of legs, ..."
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