‖ coxa
(ˈkɒksə)
Pl. coxæ.
[L.; = hip.]
1. Anat. The hip, haunch, or hip-joint; ‘also applied to the ischium and to the coccyx’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.).
| 1706 Phillips (ed. Kersey), Coxa, the Hip, or Haunch, the Joynt of the Hip, the Huckle-bone. 1754–64 Smellie Midwif. I. Introd. 34 The legs must be amputated at the Coxa. |
2. Zool. The joint by which the leg is articulated to the body in insects, arachnida, and crustacea.
| 1826 Kirby & Sp. Entomol. (1828) IV. 185 One of the rotators of the anterior coxa. 1834 McMurtrie Cuvier's Anim. Kingd. 288 The first articulation, which attaches the foot to the body..is called the coxa, or hip. 1877 Huxley Anat. Inv. Anim. vii. 405 The first sternum is..largely hidden by the coxæ of the metathoracic limbs. |