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The neck of the femur is a common site of fracture in the elderly, often resulting from a fall; the fracture is often called a ‘broken hip’. This is more common in females, due to the greater thinning of bones with advancing years (osteoporosis) in women than in men. There is evidence to suggest that hormone replacement therapy (HRT) after the menopause can slow the rate of bone loss. Treatment of a fractured neck of femur is usually by total hip joint replacement, as bone healing becomes poorer with advancing age and osteoporotic bone poorly supports metallic implants. The pelvis is wider in females than males because of the need to permit childbirth, and this results in the femoral heads being further apart. Consequently the thighs tend to be more sharply inclined inwards at the knees (valgus).
William R. Ferrell
See also joints; osteoporosis; skeleton.
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hip1 / hip/ • n. 1. a projection of the pelvis and upper thigh bone on each side of the body in human beings and quadrupeds. ∎ (hips) the circumference of the body at the buttocks: a sweater tied around the hips. ∎ a person's hip joint: she ran into a fence and dislocated her hip. 2. the sharp edge of a roof from the ridge to the eaves where two sides meet. PHRASES: on the hip archaic at a disadvantage. hip2 (also rose hip) • n. the fruit of a rose, esp. a wild kind. hip3 • adj. (hip·per , hip·pest ) inf. following the latest fashion, esp. in popular music and clothes: it's becoming hip to be environmentally conscious. ∎ understanding; aware: he's trying to show how hip he is to Americana. DERIVATIVES: hip·ly adv. hip·ness n. hip4 • interj. introducing a communal cheer: hip, hip, hooray!
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hip, in human anatomy, the joint separating the thigh bone from the pelvis, and the surrounding flesh. The adult hipbone consolidates three bones separate in youth: the ilium, ischium, and pubis. The two prominences commonly called the hipbones are the crests of the ilia. The bones of the buttocks that support the seated body are projections of the ischia. At the body midline, fibrous tissue bands the two pubis bones, thus stabilizing the hips and preventing them from spreading or buckling. With maturity, the ilium, ischium, and pubis meet and grow together at a Y-shaped junction, the site of the acetabulum, a deep cavity that receives the rounded head of the thighbone, or femur. The resulting ball-and-socket joint allows great latitude of thigh movement. If arthritis affects the joint to such degree that medication and other therapies cannot sufficiently reduce pain and increase mobility, the hip may be replaced surgically, using a metal ball and stem implanted in the top of the thigh bone and an artificial socket secured in the pelvis. See also pelvis; leg.
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smite hip and thigh punish unsparingly, originally with biblical allusion to Judges 15:8 of Samson and the Philistines.
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• Accounting human information processing
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