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单词 trochanter
释义

trochantern.

/trəʊˈkantə/
Etymology: < French trochanter (Paré, 16th cent.), < Greek τροχαντήρ (in sense 1), < τρέχειν to run.
Anatomy and Zoology.
1. A protuberance or process in the upper part of the thigh-bone, serving for the attachment of certain muscles; usually, as in man, two in number, the great trochanter (t. major) for the external rotator muscles, and the lesser trochanter (t. minor) for the ilio-psoas muscle.
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1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 997 The great Trochanter..the lesser Trochanter. These two processes are ioyned together by a line which buncheth out behind.
1741 A. Monro Anat. Human Bones (ed. 3) 279 The Muscles inserted into these two Processes being the principal Instruments of the rotatory Motion of the Thigh, have occasioned the Name of Trochanters to the Processes.
1881 St. G. Mivart Cat 282 Between the great trochanter and the tuberosity of the ischium.
2. Entomology. The second joint of an insect's leg, next to the coxa (coxa n. 2); sometimes consisting of two joints (cf. trochantin n. b).
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > parts of insects > [noun] > leg(s) > second joint
trochanter1816
1816 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1818) II. xxii. 286 These legs..vary in larvæ of the different orders; but they seem in most to have joints answering to the hip (coxa); trochanter; thigh (femur); shank (tibia); foot (tarsus), of perfect insects.
1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. vi. i. 310 Each limb [of the Sarcoptus Scabiei] consists of a hip, trochanter, small trochanter, thigh, leg, and tarsus.

Derivatives

trochanteral adj. /-ˈkæntərəl/ = trochanteric adj.
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1961 Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Trochanteral.
1967 J. H. Sudd Introd. Behaviour Ants ii. 15 The coxal and trochanteral joints.
trochanterian adj. /-ˈtɪərɪən/ [French trochantérien] rare = trochanteric adj.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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trochanterian1842
trochanteric1842
1842 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 3) Trochanterian, that which belongs or relates to the great trochanter.
trochanteric adj. /-ˈtɛrɪk/ pertaining to a trochanter; trochanteric fossa: a depression in the neck of the femur, overhung by the tip of the greater trochanter, into which the tendon of the obturator externus muscle is inserted; cf. digital fossa n. at digital n. and adj. Compounds 1.
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1842 E. Wilson Anatomist's Vade Mecum (1851) 254 The trochanteric fossa of the femur.
1890 G. M. Humphry Old Age 16 Liability to fracture..especially remarkable in the trochanteric part and neck of the thigh-bone.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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