innominate bone

== English == === 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”. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪˌnɒmɪnət ˈbəʊn/ (General American) IPA(key): /ɪˌnɑmɪnət ˈboʊn/ Rhymes: -əʊn Hyphenation: in‧nom‧in‧ate bone === Noun === innominate bone (plural innominate bones) (anatomy) 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 early 18th c.] Synonyms: (short for innominate bone) innominate, innominatum, os coxae, os innominatum ==== Related terms ==== innominate artery innominate vein ==== Translations ==== === References === === Further reading === hip bone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia