pelvis
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She had surgery to remove the cancerous cells plus lymph nodes from her abdomen and pelvis to stop it spreading.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
It was only after Enlli had further tests when a scan showed a cyst in her pelvis that the teenager from Caernarfon, Gwynedd, was given the devastating news she had ovarian cancer.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 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
A narrow pelvis improves locomotion, but restricts the birth canal’s size.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 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
Of two women with pelves of the same contraction one may require the section and the other may have a normal labour.
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
There are very many varieties of deformed pelves, but the same rules apply to them as to those already mentioned, except that the caesarean section is oftener indicated.
From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by Austin ?Malley
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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