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   Aidan Kehoe  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.   
      
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