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noun

Acetabulum n.

(Rom. Antiq.) A vinegar cup; socket of the hip bone; a measure of about one eighth of a pint, etc.

(Anat.)

(a)

The bony cup which receives the head of the thigh bone.

(b)

The cavity in which the leg of an insect is inserted at its articulation with the body.

(c)

A sucker of the sepia or cuttlefish and related animals.

(d)

The large posterior sucker of the leeches.

(e)

One of the lobes of the placenta in ruminating animals.

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Etymology of 'Acetabulum'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... frightened by a turtle, and also from the child's fancied resemblance to a turtle. The femur was six inches long, the woman had a foot of six bones, four being toes, viz., the first and second phalanges of the first and second toes. She had an acetabulum, capsule, and ligamentum teres, but no tibia or fibula; she also had a defective right forearm. She was never the victim of rachitis or like disease, but died of syphilis in the Colonial Hospital. In her twenty-second ...

— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould