noun
definition
The basal segment of a limb of various arthropods (insects and spiders, for example).
Examples of coxa in a Sentence
The y are really excretory glands, and communicate with the exterior by a very minute aperture on the posterior face of the coxa of the fifth limb on each side.
In 1900 it was shown that the coxal gland of Limulus is provided with a very delicate thin-walled coiled duct which opens, even in the adult condition, by a minute pore on the coxa of the fifth leg (Patten and Hazen, 13A).
In all the embryonic or permanent opening is on the coxa of the fifth pair of prosomatic limbs.
In the same and other leading forms a pair of much-coiled glandular tubes, the coxal glands (coelomocoels in origin), is found with a duct opening on the coxa of the fifth pair of appendages of the prosoma.
Orifice of coxal gland probably situated at base of coxa of 5th appendage; sternal plate of prosoma minute or absent; no prosternal element underlying the mouth.
These two branches arose from a common basal segment or coxa, the inner surface of which was produced into a strong process underlying the external area.
These included three cases of coxa vara, and one case of sacro-iliac fusion.