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Innominate adj.

Having no name; unnamed; as, an innominate person or place. (R.)

(Anat.) A term used in designating many parts otherwise unnamed; as, the innominate artery, a great branch of the arch of the aorta; the innominate vein, a great branch of the superior vena cava.

Innominate bone (Anat.), the great bone which makes a lateral half of the pelvis in mammals; hip bone; haunch bone; huckle bone. It is composed of three bones, ilium, ischium, and pubis, consolidated into one in the adult, though separate in the fetus, as also in many adult reptiles and amphibians.

Innominate contracts (Law), in the Roman law, contracts without a specific name.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... importance of weakening of the radial pulse as a sign in connection with a wound of the upper part of the chest on the left side. It is somewhat surprising that this sign was not marked in two cases (Nos. 13 and 14, p. 140) recorded below, in which the innominate and right carotid ...

— Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 • George Henry Makins