pelvis
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"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
A narrow pelvis improves locomotion, but restricts the birth canal’s size.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
Like the spine, the human pelvis must balance two competing demands: efficient bipedal walking and birthing large-brained infants.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
She said: "All of a sudden it'll be what I can only describe as sort of like a labour pain... it'll just shoot into my pelvis."
From BBC ● May 20, 2026
“Do you understand the long-term issues of a cross-country run like you’re planning? Muscle damage, oxidative stress, enlargement of the heart, knee damage, hip and pelvis misalignment, should I go on?”
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
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
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
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
Not rarely the kidneys were deeply engorged, and extravasations of blood into their substance, their pelves, and into the surrounding connective tissues were often encountered.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Ellis speaks of female twins, born in Millville, Tenn., and exhibited in New York in 1868, who were joined at the pelves in a longitudinal axis.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
“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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