Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c7.s2.t1.18

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These are the shoulder-joint and the hip-joint. The former is called *aṃsa-pīṭha*, or shoulder-seat, and indicates the glenoid cavity, into which the head of the humerus is inserted (Fig. 13). The latter is described as being formed of the anal bone (*guda*, coccyx), pubic bone (*bhaga*, pubic arch), and hip-bone (*nitamba*, ilium and ischium), and indicates the acetabulum or cotyloid cavity, in which the head of the femur is lodged¹ (Fig. 20).