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Hip
Engraved before 1811 from an original in the then Museum Pio Clemens in Rome (Click for details)
Esculapius (Medicine) between Mercury (Merchants) and the Graces (Medicine, Hygiene and Panacea)
Esculapius dealt with Patients - Merchants make deals with Clients

~ HIP  id+ | CURVE or BEND |
^u     id+ | WHAT COULD BE BENT |
  continued see> HAUNCH
  id+ | may imply SWELLING  TUMOR |
  id+ | LATERAL ASPECT OF THE BODY WHERE
        THE THIGH JOINS THE BODY |
  in lat CATHERGA  see> CATHEDRAL
  also   COXA      see> COXALGIA
  other root ideas are more complex
  see> CELE as in HYDROCELE for TUMOR
  see> CUBE as in CUBIT for ELBOW for BENDING
  regarding HIP note
  ukr     KUPA    = HEAP  LUMP
  gr      KHAUKHA   DRINKING CUP or VESSEL
  med>    KYPHOSIS  CUP LIKE SPINAL HUMP
  eng     LUNCH     formerly was LUMP
  gr      KHUMA     MOUNTAIN TOP
  sp      CIMA      SUMMIT  sug> CUMULUS
        ENCIMA      ON TOP
  old eng HOUNCH    HIP
          HUPE      same
          HUMP      points toward HOOK
                    as in HUNCHBACK from
  hx>     HUNCH     because TO RUB A HUMP
                    meant GOOD FORTUNE
  sp      CADERA    HIP         see> FEMUR
          CATEDRA   CATHEDRA    sug> CATHEDRAL
  lat     CATHEGRA  vern> for ACADEMIC CHAIR or
          CATHEDRA  ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE
  lat     MUSLO     HIP and now mostly THIGH
  sp      MUSCULO   MUSCLE      see> FEMALE
  biol> LATERAL ASPECT OF THE BODY INFERIOR
        INFERIOR TO THE WAIST AND EXTENDING TOWARD
  THE THIGH AND POSTERIORLY TOWARD THE BUTTOCKS
  see> BOTTOM or sug> GLUTEUS
  note SALIENT POINT OF THE
       ARTICULATION OF THE FEMUR or THIGH BONE
       WITH THE see> ILIAC ACETABULUM of the
  see> PELVIS
  continued COXA
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