In the New Testament, the Gospel of John recounts how Jesus, just before he died, cried out, “I am thirsty,” causing one of the spectators, perhaps a Roman soldier, to dip a sponge into a nearby jar of vinegar-water, which he then held to Jesus’s mouth. To us, the soldier’s offer of vinegar may seem like a cruel joke; however, the Romans themselves often drank a mixture of vinegar and water, and they even had a special name for the jar containing this bitter beverage. This name, acetabulum, is formed from acetum, the Latin word for vinegar, and abulum, a Latin suffix denoting a small vessel. Today, such a vessel is called a cruet, not an acetabulum, but the word still survives in a completely different context: physicians call the socket of your thigh bone the acetabulum because of its cup-like shape. Closely related to acetabulum are the words acetar, a now-defunct English name for a salad made with vinegar dressing, and acetic, as in acetic acid, the scientific name for vinegar. A more distant relative to these words is acid, which derived, like acetum, from the Latin word acere, meaning to be sharp.
Rounded cavity on the outer surface of the hip bone that receives the head of the femur.
The cup-shaped cavity in which the ball-shaped head of the femur articulates.
In anatomy, the large cup-shaped depression in the hipbone into which the head of the thighbone (femur) fits.
The part of the pelvic bone, shaped like a cup, into which the head of the femur fits to form the hip joint.
Cup-shaped hollow m the hipbone into which the head of the thighbone (femur) fits and rotates in a ball-and-socket joint.
A cup-shaped socket in the hip bone, formed by the ilium, that is occupied by the head of the femur, forming the hip joint.
Either of the two deep sockets, one on each side of the hip bone, into which the head of the thigh bone (femur) fits.
The cup-shaped socket on the pelvis in which rests the head of the femur or thigh-bone, the two forming the hip-joint.
The cavity or depression on the lateral surface of the innominate bone (hip bone) that provides the socket into which the head of the femur fits.
It denotes the spacious and cup-shaped hollow situated at the point where the pelvis and femur, or thigh bone, meet.
A concave, cup-shaped indentation located in the pelvis serves as the socket where the head of the femur (thigh bone) articulates to create the hip joint.
The concave cavity on the side of the pelvis that accommodates the head of the femur, forming the hip joint.