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Innominate bone

//ɪˌnɒmɪnət ˈbəʊn// noun

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Noun

1
Synonym of hip bone (“one of two roughly symmetrical parts of the skeleton, each composed of the fused iliac, ischial, and pubic bones, that together form the sides of the pelvis”).
"From this second junction or plexus beneath the gluteus maximum muscle, are given usually three cutaneous nerves to the integument of the buttock: all these perforate the gluteus; one being found near the posterior superior spine of the innominate bone, another, the largest, near the end of the sacrum, and the remaining one being intermediate between the other two."
2
large flaring bone forming one half of the pelvis; made up of the ilium and ischium and pubis wordnet

Etymology

From innominate (“having no name, nameless, unnamed”, adjective) + bone (noun), possibly a calque of Late Latin os innōminātum. It has been suggested that the bone “remains unnamed and unnameable” because it “is of so complex and irregular a form, that it bears no perceptible resemblance to any other known object”.

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