Meaning of ACETABULUM in English

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Meaning of ACETABULUM in English

• A vinegar cup; socket of the hip bone; a measure of about one eighth of a pint, etc.
• The bony cup which receives the head of the thigh bone.
• The cavity in which the leg of an insect is inserted at its articulation with the body.
• A sucker of the sepia or cuttlefish and related animals.
• The large posterior sucker of the leeches.
• One of the lobes of the placenta in ruminating animals.

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