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innominate bones

innominate bones is the plural of innominate bone.

Meaning of innominate bone

Noun

innominate bone (plural innominate bones)

  1. Synonym of hip bone (“one of two roughly symmetrical parts of the skeleton, each composed of the fused iliac, ischial, and pubic bones, that together form the sides of the pelvis”).
    • From this second junction or plexus beneath the gluteus maximum muscle, are given usually three cutaneous nerves to the integument of the buttock: all these perforate the gluteus; one being found near the posterior superior spine of the innominate bone, another, the largest, near the end of the...1843 February 10, George Viner Ellis, “On the Posterior Divisions of the Spinal Nerves”, in The London Medical Gazette; Being a Weekly Journal of Medicine and the Collateral Sciences, volume I (New...

Questions about innominate bones

What is innominate bones the plural of?
Innominate bones is the plural of innominate bone.

Words near innominate bones in the dictionary

  1. innominata
  2. innominate
  3. innominate arteries
  4. innominate artery
  5. innominate bone
  6. innominate bones
  7. innominate substance
  8. innominate vein
  9. innominate veins
  10. innominates
  11. innominatum

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