‖ coxˈendix
Pl. coxˈendices.
[L., f. coxa.]
The hip or hip-bone; also the ischium, the ilium.
| 1615 Crooke Body of Man 344 Their Coxendices are distracted and parted asunder. 1727–51 Chambers Cycl. Anat. Table Fig. iii. 16–19 Os Innominatum or Coxendix. 1866 R. D. Blackmore Crad. Nowell xxxiv. (1883) 207 A dahlia whose stake had gone through his waistcoat-back and grazed his coxendix or something. |