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Subject: Re: Crus, Crures (quod pectus, quod crura tibi, quod bracchia vellis)
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Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> wrote:
> Within anatomy there’s a convention, more honoured in the breach than in the
> observance in my experience, that “leg” should be used for that part of the
> lower limb between the knee and the ankle, and “lower limb” should be used as
> the more general term. 

Portuguese _perna_ (whence?) will be that part, if one is differentiating
it from _coxa_ 'thigh', or the whole limb in usual parlance. The opposite
for _braço_, v.a.v. _antebraço_.

Chicken legs, in general shape, look a bit like pork thighs, which has led
to their being called 'coxa' in Brazil, requiring the invention of the new
word _sobrecoxa_ by the people who use the former.