Definitions for trochanter

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trochanter tro·chan·ter

Spelling: [troh-kan-ter]

IPA: /troʊˈkæn tər/

Trochanter is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 632 anagrams from letters in trochanter (acehnorrtt).

Definitions for trochanter

noun

1. Anatomy. either of two knobs at the top of the femur, the greater on the outside and the lesser on the inside, serving for the attachment of muscles between the thigh and pelvis.
2. Zoology. any similar prominence on the femur in many other vertebrates.
3. Entomology. (in an insect) the usually small second segment of the leg, between the coxa and femur.

Origin of trochanter

1605-15; New Latin Greek trochantḗr ball on which the hip bone turns in its socket

Examples for trochanter

The femur has a third trochanter (except in Chalicotherium).

The second joint of the Brachium, answering to the trochanter in the legs.

There is a slight ridge on the femur in the place of a third trochanter.

The femur frequently has a ridge representing the third trochanter.

Fulcrant: the trochanter when continued along the femur, as in Carabids.

In the Insectivora a third trochanter is sometimes developed.

The third trochanter is absent, as in Myrmecophaga (and the Sloths).

The femur has no third trochanter, and the tibia and fibula are distinct.

The trochanter is simple in some genera and divided in others.

The femur has a slight ridge representing the third trochanter.