pelvis
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The dinosaur stands apart from related species because of several unique features found in its spine, pelvis, and leg bones.
From Science Daily ● May 15, 2026
At the time, Lee was in a wheelchair after losing a leg and a portion of his pelvis when he was hit by a speeding car at age 14.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026
For the first couple of days, the pain in my pelvis was far, far worse.
From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2026
"It started from pain in my pelvis every day since I wake up until I go to sleep. It just never goes away really," she said.
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 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
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 ?Malley, Austin
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 ?Malley, Austin
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 ?Malley, Austin
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 Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
“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
But, conversely, if the methylation data suggested Neanderthals grew small pelvises, you could consider their lower pelvic bones, which are skinnier than humans’ bones are.
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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