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Definition of Hip socket
1. Noun. The socket part of the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the innominate bone.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hip Socket
Literary usage of Hip socket
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Organic Evolution by Richard Swann Lull (1917)
"... merely a device for eating under water, and found elsewhere, and the exclusion
of the pubic element of the pelvis from the hip socket. Ancestral Stock. ..."
2. A Text-book of Fractures and Dislocations: With Special Reference to Their by Kellogg Speed (1916)
"When the body lies on a flat surface the pubes are the highest point in front,
the hip socket lying midway between the level of the pubes and the floor, ..."
3. Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament by Carl Friedrich Keil, Franz Delitzsch (1866)
""And when fie (the unknown) saw that He did not overcome him, He touched his
hip-socket; and his hip-socket was put out of joint (Vi?n from yfy as He ..."
4. Life Lessons For The Christian Journeyby Margaret Burroughs by Margaret Burroughs (2004)
"That is a strike on the hip socket. All you can do at this point is hold on to God.
As Jacob holds onto the angel, daybreak starts to set. ..."
5. A Catechism of Natural Theology by Ichabod Nichols (1831)
"... and inserted by the head into the socket at a. is no pressing inward at this
joint. We see why the hip socket should be made deep to prevent the bone ..."
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