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What is a coxa?

What is a coxa? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (anatomy) The basal segment of a limb of various arthropods (insects and spiders, for example).
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Both types of arthropods employ two short basal segments, coxa and trochanter, although the trochanter and femur are fused in some insects.
In one of the legs determine the coxa, trochanter, femur, tibia and tarsal segments.
Proxicarpilius exhibits the weak dorsal carapace ridge at the anterolateral corner and the direct articulation of the coxa with the merus, typical of carpiliids.
Thus in Tettigonia F. it is bilobed, and between it and the coxa two small pieces are inserted.
Flared iliac wings and shallow acetabulae are present along with coxa valga and flaring of the femoral metaphyses.
In entomostracan crustaceans, the occurrence of a coxa is restricted to exactly those appendages, the antenna and mandible.

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