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Pelvis   /pˈɛlvəs/   Listen
Pelvis

noun
(pl. pelvises, pelves)
1.
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.
2.
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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"Pelvis" Quotes from Famous Books



... at Puberty.— The physical changes that gradually take place, beginning at the time of puberty, are: the breasts, pelvis, and neck enlarge; hair develops over the pubis and in the arm-pits; the voice alters. As a rule, women continue to grow in stature until the twenty-fifth year. It is said that brunettes develop sooner than blondes, and that large women develop more slowly than women of small stature; city girls ...
— The Four Epochs of Woman's Life • Anna M. Galbraith

... the head, with its features taken in three points of view, front, back, and profile; the neck in like manner, also the thorax, abdomen, and pelvis; thigh, knee, leg, ankle, the carpus, metacarpus, and toes; the clavicula, arm, fore-arm, wrist, carpus, metacarpus, and fingers. While you are employed on these, it would be highly proper to have before you the osteology of the part on which you are engaged, as in that consists the foundation of ...
— The Life, Studies, And Works Of Benjamin West, Esq. • John Galt



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