This entry is concerned with the word бедро denoting the human hip, i.e. part of the body whose underlying bone structure includes the pelvis and the upper part of the thighbone. The word бедро is also used in the anatomical meaning "femur, thighbone,"
i.e. the bone which extends from the pelvis to knee. In the present entry this meaning occurs only in the expression for "broken hip": перелом шейки бедра, literally "a fracture of the neck of the femur," the neck being the part of the hip that
usually gets broken in a fall.