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Pelvis

noun

(pl. pelvises, pelves)

The structure of the vertebrate skeleton supporting the lower limbs in humans and the hind limbs or corresponding parts in other vertebrates. Synonyms: hip, pelvic arch, pelvic girdle.

A structure shaped like a funnel in the outlet of the kidney into which urine is discharged before passing into the ureter. Synonym: renal pelvis.

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Etymology of 'Pelvis'

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"Pelvis" Quotes from Famous Books

... production of articulate speech, and speech is intelligence. Moreover, this position, causing the head to weigh vertically upon the trunk, facilitated its development and increase of weight, and the head is the seat of the mind. But as this necessitated greater strength and resistance in the bones of the pelvis than in those of species whose head and trunk rest upon all four extremities, the burden fell upon woman, the author of the Fall according to Genesis, of bringing forth larger-headed offspring through a harder framework of bone. And Jahwe condemned her, for having sinned, ...

— Tragic Sense Of Life • Miguel de Unamuno

... The Pelvis.—The pelvis is the bony framework which forms the lower part of the body. On each side it forms a union with the hip bone ...

— Treatise on the Diseases of Women • Lydia E. Pinkham

... and the lower extremities, upon which it rests. It is composed of four bones, the two innominated, (nameless), which bound it on either side and in front, and the Sacrum and Coccyx, which complete it behind. Further description will be given in the department of Obstetrics. The cavity of the pelvis contains the bladder, the rectum, and some of the generative organs peculiar to each sex and some windings of the small intestine; they are partially covered by the peritoneum (lining membrane of the ...

— Mother's Remedies - Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers - of the United States and Canada • T. J. Ritter

Words linked to "Pelvis" : appendicular skeleton, ischial bone, cavum, ischium, tail bone, pubis, bodily cavity, ilium, hipbone, sacrum, coxa, pelvic, coccyx, hip joint, pelvic girdle, kidney, articulatio coxae, os pubis, girdle, os ischii, cavity, pubic bone, innominate bone