Anatomy - The hip or hip joint. Zoology - The first segment of the leg of an insect or other arthropod, joining the leg to the body.
{Latin hip}
Coxal adj.
Cox"a (k?ks"?), n. [L., the hip.] Zool.
The first joint of the leg of an insect or crustacean.
© Webster 1913.
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