Body Space or Junction
hip joint
hip joint
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Joints
Definitions related to hip joint:
  • A ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • The joint that is formed by the articulation of the head of FEMUR and the ACETABULUM of the PELVIS.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • The hip joint (see the image below) is a ball-and-socket synovial joint: the ball is the femoral head, and the socket is the acetabulum. The hip joint is the articulation of the pelvis with the femur, which connects the axial skeleton with the lower extremity.
    Medscape
    WebMD, 2019
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