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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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Flared iliac wings and shallow acetabulae are present along with coxa valga and flaring of the femoral metaphyses.
These are the trochanter, which acts as a swivel joint for the leg, and the coxa, which anchors the leg to the body.
In one of the legs determine the coxa, trochanter, femur, tibia and tarsal segments.
The one next the body we will mark I, and we will call it the coxa.
A cockroach leg is made up of a number of distinct segments, arranged along the proximo-distal axis in the order coxa, femur, tibia, tarsus.
In entomostracan crustaceans, the occurrence of a coxa is restricted to exactly those appendages, the antenna and mandible.

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