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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

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

A narrow pelvis improves locomotion, but restricts the birth canal’s size.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026

Her pelvis is better, but she has been told she will never have full movement in her wrist.

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 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

Pare speaks of twins united at the pelves, who were born in Paris July 20, 1570.

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

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

Here are reptiles with bat-like wings, and others with bird-like pelves and legs adapted for bipedal locomotion.

From A History of Science — Volume 3 by Henry Smith Williams

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

“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

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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