Hip bones, left and right (bony pelvis, one mesh)

Os coxae

  • Bone
  • Body
  • Single, on the midline
  • Horse

The hip bone: ilium, ischium and pubis fused, holding the socket of the hip joint.

About the hip bones, left and right (bony pelvis, one mesh) of the horse

Hip bones, left and right (bony pelvis, one mesh) is a bone of the body (trunk), a single structure on the midline. Its name in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria is Os coxae. You can turn it above, see it in place in the body of the horse, and open it inside the whole animal in Vetomica.

Terminology

English
Hip bones, left and right (bony pelvis, one mesh)
Latin (NAV)
Os coxae
Status
A valid term in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria

Questions about the hip bones, left and right (bony pelvis, one mesh)

What is the Latin name of the hip bones, left and right (bony pelvis, one mesh)?
In the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria, the hip bones, left and right (bony pelvis, one mesh) is called Os coxae.
Where is the hip bones, left and right (bony pelvis, one mesh) of the horse?
Hip bones, left and right (bony pelvis, one mesh) is a bone of the body (trunk), a single structure on the midline.

See the hip bones, left and right (bony pelvis, one mesh) inside the whole horse.

Vetomica opens on this structure with every layer of the horse around it: peel back the skin and the muscles, cut a section through it, X-ray it, and practise naming it until you stop getting it wrong.

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