the.com/hip bone
The skeleton's awkward merger of three bones that never quite agree on their name.
means The large, flared bone on either side of your pelvis, formed where the ilium, ischium, and pubis fuse together.
from Straightforward Old English: 'hip' (hype, referring to the curve of the body below the waist) plus 'bone' (ban). No disguise, no detour — unlike its fancier Latin cousin 'os coxae,' which anatomists still prefer when they want to sound official about the same stretch of skeleton.
- actual name
- innominate bone, literally means unnamed bone
- three fused parts
- ilium, ischium, and pubis grow together
- fusion deadline
- doesn't fully fuse until your twenties
- connected to
- that song lied, it's not the thigh bone directly