Pl. coxendices. [L., f. coxa.] The hip or hip-bone; also the ischium, the ilium.
1615. Crooke, Body of Man, 344. Their Coxendices are distracted and parted asunder.
1727–51. Chambers, Cycl., Anat. Table Fig. III. 16–19. Os Innominatum or Coxendix.
1866. Blackmore, Cradock Nowell, xxxiv. (1883), 207. A dahlia whose stake had gone through his waistcoat-back and grazed his coxendix or something.
