obturator : Idioms & Phrases


Obturator foramen

  • (Anat.), an opening situated between the public and ischial parts of the innominate bone and closed by the obturator membrane; the thyroid foramen.
Webster 1913

obturator vein

  • noun a vein formed by the union of tributaries that drain the hip joints and thigh muscles; empties into the internal iliac vein
    vena obturatoria.
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