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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

"Half of the bus was actually on her pelvis and hips, but her legs and body were inside the bus," she said.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 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

Because her endometriosis had been left untreated for so long, it had formed into frozen pelvis disease where "everything was stuck together".

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026

For these past days—how many?—it has felt as though the hunger were a hand inside him, thrusting around in the cavity of his chest, reaching up to his shoulder blades, then down into his pelvis.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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

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

Symphysiotomy is an operation consisting of division of the pubic symphysis in order to facilitate delivery in narrow pelves.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle

We can measure the pelves, but the size of the child's head is not satisfactorily measurable.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by Austin ?Malley

When the breech or face of the child presents in contracted pelves, the condition is especially unfavourable for the child.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by Austin ?Malley

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

If the methylation pattern suggested Neanderthals grew big pelvises — which the study does — the large flare in their upper hips could allow you to conclude the pattern is correct.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 19, 2019

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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