'Innominate bone' definitions:
Definition of 'innominate bone'
From: WordNet
noun
Large flaring bone forming one half of the pelvis; made up of the ilium and ischium and pubis [syn: hipbone, innominate bone]
Definition of 'Innominate bone'
From: GCIDE
- Innominate \In*nom"i*nate\, a. [L. innominatus; pref. in- not + nominare to name.]
- 1. Having no name; unnamed; as, an innominate person or place. [R.] --Ray. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Anat.) A term used in designating many parts otherwise unnamed; as, the innominate artery, a great branch of the arch of the aorta; the innominate vein, a great branch of the superior vena cava. [1913 Webster]
- Innominate bone (Anat.), the great bone which makes a lateral half of the pelvis in mammals; hip bone; haunch bone; huckle bone. It is composed of three bones, ilium, ischium, and pubis, consolidated into one in the adult, though separate in the fetus, as also in many adult reptiles and amphibians.
- Innominate contracts (Law), in the Roman law, contracts without a specific name. [1913 Webster]