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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[NL., fr. Gr. [GREEK].]

(Anat.)

One of two processes near the head of the femur, the outer being called the

great trochanter

, and the inner the

small trochanter

(Zool.)

The third joint of the leg of an insect, or the second when the trochantine is united with the coxa.

Noun.

[Gr.] In anatomy, the trochanters are two processes of the thigh bone, called major and minor, the major on the outside, and the minor on the inside.