Tro-chān’ter, n.

n. [Gr. τροχαντήρ, a runner, the ball on which the hip-bone turns in its socket; τροχάζειν, to run along, from τρέχειν, to run.] (Anat.) One of the two processes of the thigh-bone, at its upper end, called major and minor, or greater and less, or little, the major being on the outside, and the minor on the inside.