Usually means: Attachment point for thigh muscles.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word trochanter:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. trochanter: Merriam-Webster
  2. trochanter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. trochanter: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. trochanter: Collins English Dictionary
  5. trochanter: Vocabulary.com
  6. trochanter: Wordnik
  7. Trochanter: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  8. trochanter: Wiktionary
  9. trochanter: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. trochanter: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. trochanter: Dictionary.com
  12. Trochanter (arthropod leg), Trochanter: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Trochanter: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. trochanter: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. trochanter: Rhymezone
  16. Trochanter: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. trochanter: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. trochanter: FreeDictionary.org
  19. trochanter: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. trochanter: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. trochanter: Encyclopedia

Medicine (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. trochanter: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Trochanter: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  6. Trochanter: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  7. trochanter: Medical Etymology Anatomy
  8. Glossary of Skeletal Anatomy (No longer online)
  9. trochanter: Medical dictionary
  10. Trochanter: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

(Note: See trochanteral as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (trochanter)

noun:  (anatomy) In vertebrates with legs, the end of the femur near the hip joint, not including the head or neck.
noun:  In some arthropods, the second segment of the leg, between the coxa and the femur.

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