ˈhaunch-bone
The bone of the haunch: sometimes applied to the os innominatum as a whole, but more frequently to the os ilium.
| c 1386 Chaucer Miller's T. 93 He..heeld hire harde by the haunche bones. 1548–77 Vicary Anat. x. (1888) 84 The thye bone..the roundnes that is at the vpper ende..is receyued into the..hole of the hanche bone. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iv. vi. 195 The hanch bones in women..are more protuberant then they are in men. 1831 R. Knox Cloquet's Anat. 111 The Coxal, Iliac, or Haunch Bone..which is a double unsymmetrical bone..the largest of all the flat bones, and occupies the lateral and anterior parts of the pelvis. 1855 Ramsbotham Obstetr. Med. 2 The os ilium, hip or haunch bone, is the largest of the 3 divisions of the os innominatum. |