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pelvis

[pel-vis] / ˈpɛl vɪs /


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Silver-Fajardo had undergone surgery on her knee and was awaiting another to repair her pelvis, Chernin wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

Endometriosis is a condition where tissue similar to the lining of the womb grows in other parts of the body, most commonly around the ovaries, fallopian tubes, and pelvis.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

His father suffered a major injury to his left leg and pelvis after being hit by the car, she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

The sacrum is a group of vertebrae connected to the pelvis and forms part of the animal's lower spine.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026

But Baker didn't speak to Bliss or to any of Garfield's new physicians, especially after they stated that the bullet had gone down the right side toward the pelvis.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow

With all this research out there showing how gestation seems to be limited primarily by maternal metabolism, why this notion that we’re compromised by our pelves?

From Scientific American ● Sep. 5, 2012

The same conditions have been observed from time to time between different breeds of dogs, whose pelves vary.

From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Eugene S. Talbot

Difficulty also not seldom occurs in women with normal pelves from an excessive size in the child through prolonged pregnancy, bigness of one or both parents, or the advanced age or multiparity of the mother.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by Austin ?Malley

In cases where the conjugata vera is above 7 centimetres in flat pelves and 7.5 centimetres in generally contracted pelves, the treatment can not be reduced to general rules.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by Austin ?Malley

There are altars made of their skulls, and chandeliers made of their thigh bones; frescoes of their spines; mosaics of their teeth and dried muscles; cozy corners of their femurs and pelves and tibiae.

From Europe Revised by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

“I do believe that if we could all align our pelvises, wars would stop and everything would take its right place,” he told Dance Magazine in 2007.

From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2024

The researchers tested samples of soil around the pelvises of remains of 19 monks and 25 locals.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2022

Not all parasitologists are sold that the structures pocketing the friars’ pelvises are medieval worm eggs, however.

From Science Magazine ● Aug. 18, 2022

It was a risky gambit for the burgeoning pop star, who released her disco-kissed “Future Nostalgia” at a time when bumping pelvises in a packed nightclub was actually forbidden.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 1, 2022

Thirty-three Delta females, long-headed, sandy, with narrow pelvises, and all within 20 millimetres of 1 metre 69 centimetres tall, were cutting screws.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley


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