hip-bone

Now that we have been ‘de-byred’, what happened to the joint between the hip-bone and thigh bone over several million years to allow bi-pedal locomotion?

Early indications of bipedalism in A. afarensis - The Panda's Thumb 2010

Now that we have been ‘de-byred’, what happened to the joint between the hip-bone and thigh bone over several million years to allow bi-pedal locomotion?

Early indications of bipedalism in A. afarensis - The Panda's Thumb 2010

Hucklebone is the hip-bone but in the plural it applies to our cockals or cockles: Latham gives

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Scientists found that women taking the supplements had only 1 percent higher hip-bone density than women on the -- placebo.

Health: Building Strong Bones 2007

That night we camped as before, only I was more knowing, and slept with my clothes on, and found a hollow for my hip-bone, by which contrivances I slept like a top.

A First Year in Canterbury Settlement 2004

Then the squire, turning his tail to the drummer, he advanced in a retrograde motion, and with one kick of his heels, not only broke the drum into a thousand pieces, but laid the drummer in the mire, with such a blow upon his hip-bone, that he halted all the days of his life.

The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves 2004

The bed is a mat made of rushes sewn together with twine; the hip-bone soon becomes sore on the hard flat surface, as we are not allowed to make a hole in the floor to receive the prominent part called trochanter by anatomists, as we do when sleeping on grass or sand.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

But their being bipeds and able to stand is above all due to their having the hip-bone shaped like a thigh, and so large that it looks as if they had two thighs, one in the leg before the knee-joint, the other joining his part to the fundament.

On the Gait of Animals 2002

But their being bipeds and able to stand is above all due to their having the hip-bone shaped like a thigh, and so large that it looks as if they had two thighs, one in the leg before the knee-joint, the other joining his part to the fundament.

On the Gait of Animals 2002

I slit open Pharaoh's corpse down his left flank from ribs to hip-bone.

River God Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1993