Definition of "coxa" [cox•a]

• Anatomy The hip or hip joint. (noun)
• Zoology The first segment of the leg of an insect or other arthropod, joining the leg to the body. (noun)

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• "MH1 has a good specimen of the os coxa bone, more commonly known as “the hip bone”, which is, funnily enough, the “relevant hip bone” for diagnosing locomotion."
• "He devised a new treatment for «pes varus» and published a well-illustrated work on phosphorus necrosis and another on coxa vara."
• "Nerinaeum: a ventral thoracic sclerite between the metasternum and posterior coxa in some Coleoptera."