hip joint : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: hip joint	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for hip joint
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hip joint n the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum Synonym(s): hip, hip joint, coxa, articulatio coxae
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hip \Hip\, n. [OE. hipe, huppe, AS. hype; akin to D. heup, OHG. huf, G. h[81]fte, Dan. hofte, Sw. h[94]ft, Goth. hups; cf. Icel. huppr, and also Gr. [?] the hollow above the hips of cattle, and Lith. kumpis ham.] 1. The projecting region of the lateral parts of one side of the pelvis and the hip joint; the haunch; the huckle. 2. (Arch.) The external angle formed by the meeting of two sloping sides or skirts of a roof, which have their wall plates running in different directions. 3. (Engin) In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord. --Waddell. {Hip bone} (Anat.), the innominate bone; -- called also {haunch bone} and {huckle bone}. {Hip girdle} (Anat.), the pelvic girdle. {Hip joint} (Anat.), the articulation between the thigh bone and hip bone. {Hip knob} (Arch.), a finial, ball, or other ornament at the intersection of the hip rafters and the ridge. {Hip molding} (Arch.), a molding on the hip of a roof, covering the hip joint of the slating or other roofing. {Hip rafter} (Arch.), the rafter extending from the wall plate to the ridge in the angle of a hip roof. {Hip roof}, {Hipped roof} (Arch.), a roof having sloping ends and sloping sides. See {Hip}, n., 2., and {Hip}, v. t., 3. {Hip tile}, a tile made to cover the hip of a roof. {To catch upon the hip}, [or] {To have on the hip}, to have or get the advantage of; -- a figure probably derived from wresting. --Shak. {To smite hip and thigh}, to overthrow completely; to defeat utterly. --Judg. xv. 8.