Trochanter Definition

trō-kăntər
noun
Any of the jutting processes (in humans, two) at the upper end of the femur of many vertebrates.
Webster's New World
The second segment from the base of an insect leg.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Trochanter

Noun

Singular:
trochanter
Plural:
trochanters

Origin of Trochanter

  • New Latin from Greek trokhantēr ball of the hip joint from trekhein to run

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Ancient Greek τροχαντήρ (trokhantēr)

    From Wiktionary

Trochanter Sentence Examples

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

  • It is almost certain that the distal of these two segments really belongs to the thigh, but the ordinary nomenclature will be used in the present article, as this character is of great importance in discriminating families, and the two segments in question are referred to the trochanter by most systematic writers.

  • The most generalized type is Coryphodon, representing the family Goryphodontidae, from the lower Eocene of Europe and North America, in which there were 44 teeth, and no horn-like excrescences on the long skull, while the femur had a third trochanter.

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

  • There were three toes to each foot, and the femur lacked a third trochanter.

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