HIP JOINT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hip joint mean? 

• HIP JOINT (noun)
  The noun HIP JOINT has 1 sense:

1. the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum

  Familiarity information: HIP JOINT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIP JOINT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

articulatio coxae; coxa; hip; hip joint

Hypernyms ("hip joint" is a kind of...):

articulatio spheroidea; ball-and-socket joint; cotyloid joint; enarthrodial joint; enarthrosis; spheroid joint (a freely moving joint in which a sphere on the head of one bone fits into a rounded cavity in the other bone)

Meronyms (parts of "hip joint"):

ischial bone; ischium; os ischii (one of the three sections of the hipbone; situated below the ilium)

Holonyms ("hip joint" is a part of...):

thigh (the part of the leg between the hip and the knee)

hip; pelvic arch; pelvic girdle; pelvis (the structure of the vertebrate skeleton supporting the lower limbs in humans and the hind limbs or corresponding parts in other vertebrates)

 Context examples 

During a hip replacement operation, the surgeon removes damaged cartilage and bone from your hip joint and replaces them with new, man-made parts.

(Hip Replacement, NIH: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases)

Noninflammatory degenerative disease of the hip joint which usually appears in late middle or old age.

(Hip Osteoarthritis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

An artery arising from the profunda femoris artery with ascending and descending branches that supply the thigh muscles and hip joint.

(Medial Circumflex Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

The 22-mm scaffolds were shaped over a mold to mimic a hip joint surface and attached to a nylon mesh to maintain their shape.

(Stem cells grown on scaffold mimic hip joint cartilage, NIH)

The caudal portion of the trunk, bounded anteriorly and laterally by the two hip bones incorporating the socket portion of the hip joint for each leg.

(Pelvic Bone, NCI Thesaurus)

A blood vessel arising from the profunda artery with one branch supplying the hip joint and two other branches supplying the adductor muscles in the upper inner thigh.

(Internal Circumflex Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

A vein that drains the hip joint, obturator, and adductor muscles of the thigh into the internal iliac vein.

(Obturator Vein, NCI Thesaurus)

A hip replacement can: • Relieve pain • Help your hip joint work better • Improve walking and other movements

(Hip Replacement, NIH: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases)