acetabulum

Also known as acetabular part of hip bone, acetabular region, cotyloid cavity

The acetabulum (; : acetabula), also called the cotyloid cavity, is a concave surface of the pelvis. The head of the femur meets with the pelvis at the acetabulum, forming the hip joint.

Key facts

Bone.Name: Acetabulum of pelvis
Bone.Latin: acetabulum
Bone.Image: Pelvic girdle illustration.svg
Bone.Caption: Pelvic girdle
Bone.Image2: Acetabulum (model).jpg
Bone.Caption2: A model of the acetabulum (cotyloid cavity)

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Research

18,687 papers

[Periprosthetic Acetabulum Fractures].Zeitschrift fur Orthopadie und Unfallchirurgie · 2016
[Periprosthetic fractures of the acetabulum: osteosynthesis].Der Chirurg; Zeitschrift fur alle Gebiete der operativen Medizen · 2020
Focus on pelvis and acetabulum.European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society · 2015
[Acetabulum fractures].Der Unfallchirurg · 1999
[Periprosthetic fractures of the acetabulum: revision endoprosthetics].Der Chirurg; Zeitschrift fur alle Gebiete der operativen Medizen · 2020

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Commons category: Acetabulum
NCI Thesaurus ID: C32042

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The acetabulum (; : acetabula), also called the cotyloid cavity, is a concave surface of the pelvis. The head of the femur meets with the pelvis at the acetabulum, forming the hip joint.

==Structure== There are three bones of the os coxae (hip bone) that come together to form the acetabulum. Contributing a little more than two-fifths of the structure is the ischium, which provides lower and side boundaries to the acetabulum. The ilium forms the upper boundary, providing a little less than two-fifths of the structure of the acetabulum. The rest is formed by the pubis, near the midline.