ischium
nounUK /ˈɪskɪəm/ · US /ˈɪskiəm/
Etymology 17th century, from Latin ischium, from Ancient Greek ἰσχίον (iskhíon, “hip joint”).
- And he still carried, after five or six years, and though he dressed it in a mirror night and morning, on his right ischium a running sore of traumatic origin.1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
- Related terms
- bone