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tro·chan·ter
\trōˈkantə(r), -ˈkaan-\ noun
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Etymology: New Latin, from Greek trochantēr, from trechein to run
1. : a rough prominence or process at the upper part of the femur of many vertebrates serving for the attachment of muscles and in birds for articulation with the ilium, being usually two on each femur in mammals though occasionally one or (as in horses and rhinoceroses) three, and in man constituting a larger prominence situated at the outer part of the upper end of the shaft at its junction with the neck and a smaller at the lower back part of the junction of the shaft and neck — called also respectively great trochanter or greater trochanter, lesser trochanter
2. : the second segment counting from the base of the leg of an insect that is usually small and short and in some insects consists of two or rarely of several distinct parts — see trochantin 1 |