Hip joint, illustration. This is a ball-and-socket joint. The socket is a cup-shaped cavity in the pelvic bone (upper right), which the ball (upper centre), at the head of the femur (thigh bone, left) fits in to. Illustration from 'Connais toi, toi meme' by Louis Figuier (1879).

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