Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In anatomy, the innominate bone, more expressly called
os innominatum ; the haunch-bone, flank-bone, hip-bone, or os coxæ. - noun Something whose use and name are unknown: a term used frequently in schedules and the like with respect to objects of antiquity.
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Examples
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The os innominatum may be so fractured that the pelvic girdle is broken, as in fracture of the iliac shaft, or in a manner that the girdling continuity of the innominate bones is not interrupted.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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By removing the os innominatum, A D, Plate 48, together with the internal obturator, and levator ani muscles, which arise from its inner side, we obtain a lateral view, Plate 49, of the pelvic viscera, and of the vessels &c. connected with them.
Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise
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These include official letters written by Bonaventure as general to the superiors of the order, as well as personal letters addressed like that "Ad innominatum magistrum" to private individuals.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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These fractures will be considered under their separate denominations, as those of the sacrum and the os innominatum, or hip, which includes the subdivisions of the ilium, the pubes, and the ischium.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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Mingled with the rest, the pelvic bone of a man, os innominatum, was obtained by Dr. Dickeson of Natchez, in whose collection I saw it.
The Antiquity of Man Charles Lyell 1836
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Epistula de tribus quaestionibus ad magistrum innominatum, in Opere di San Bonaventura.
Latest Articles Zenit News Agency 2010
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[Illustration: _The Pelvis. _ a, _the sacrum; _ b, b, _the right and the left innominatum.
Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics Joel Dorman Steele
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