THIGH

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The part of the leg between the hip and the knee

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("thigh" is a kind of...):

limb (one of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping: arm; leg; wing; flipper)

Meronyms (parts of "thigh"):

musculus adductor brevis (the short adductor muscle of the thigh)

musculus adductor longus (the long adductor muscle of the thigh)

great adductor muscle; musculus adductor magnus (the muscle that adducts and extends the thigh)

musculus quadriceps femoris; quad; quadriceps; quadriceps femoris (a muscle of the thigh that extends the leg)

arteria circumflexa femoris; circumflex artery of the thigh (an artery that supplies the hip joint and thigh muscles)

arteria femoralis; femoral artery (the chief artery of the thigh; a continuation of the external iliac artery)

femoral vein; vena femoralis (a vein that accompanies the femoral artery in the same sheath; a continuation of the popliteal vein; becomes the external iliac vein)

articulatio coxae; coxa; hip; hip joint (the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum)

anterior crural nerve; femoral nerve; nervus femoralis (one of a pair of nerves that originate from lumbar nerves and supply the muscles and skin of the anterior part of the thigh)

femoris; femur; thighbone (the longest and thickest bone of the human skeleton; extends from the pelvis to the knee)

femoral biceps; musculus biceps femoris (the biceps muscle of the thigh; it flexes the knee and rotates the leg laterally)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "thigh"):

lap (the upper side of the thighs of a seated person)

Holonyms ("thigh" is a part of...):

leg (a human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part of the limb between the knee and ankle)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The upper joint of the leg of a fowl

Synonyms:

second joint; thigh

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("thigh" is a kind of...):

helping; portion; serving (an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal)

Meronyms (parts of "thigh"):

dark meat (the flesh of the legs of fowl used as food)

Holonyms ("thigh" is a part of...):

bird; fowl (the flesh of a bird or fowl (wild or domestic) used as food)

Credits

Context examples:

An example is a thigh bone replaced during surgery for cancer.

(Metallic endoprosthesis, NCI Dictionary)

The lateral prominence of the pelvis from the waist to the thigh.

(Hip, NCI Thesaurus)

It can cause sores on your genital or rectal area, buttocks, and thighs.

(Genital Herpes, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

These muscles are responsible for hip abduction and extension as well as movement of the thigh.

(Gluteal Muscle, NCI Thesaurus)

Your bone marrow is the spongy tissue inside some of your bones, such as your hip and thigh bones.

(Myelodysplastic Syndromes, NIH National Cancer Institute)

But Grey Beaver laughed loudly, and slapped his thighs, and told the happening to all the rest of the camp, till everybody was laughing uproariously.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

A three-parts-parried blow drew blood from Alleyne's left shoulder, but at the same moment he wounded Tranter slightly upon the thigh.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“And a good man too!” roared Belcher, slapping his thigh with a crack like a pistol-shot.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Still, as I say, it was a boy's game, and I thought I could hold my own at it against an elderly seaman with a wounded thigh.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Patients experience cramping and pain usually in the calves and thighs while walking.