HIP SOCKET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hip socket mean? 

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

1. the socket part of the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the innominate bone

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIP SOCKET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The socket part of the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the innominate bone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

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

socket (a bony hollow into which a structure fits)

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

articulatio; articulation; joint ((anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion))