About the hip. The top of your femur and part of your pelvic bone meet to form your hip. A broken hip is usually a fracture in the upper portion of your femur, or thigh bone. A joint is a point where two or more bones come together, and the hip is a ball-and-socket joint. The ball is the head of the femur and the socket is the curved part of the pelvic bone, called the acetabulum.
Definition of deuteragonist. 1  1 : the actor taking the part of second importance in a classical Greek drama. 2  2 : a person who serves as a foil to another.
Relating to pharmacology or drugs. pertaining to pharmacology. pharmacological antagonism. the relationship between drugs in which an antagonist inhibits the activity of an agonist by reacting with the receptor or other part of the effector mechanism. The antagonist has no other pharmacological function.