pelvis
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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
Her pelvis is better, but she has been told she will never have full movement in her wrist.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
Lauren Buckland, 36, said she gets regular random "stabbing" pains in her uterus, lower back, hip and pelvis.
From BBC ● May 20, 2026
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
Jacquel tied off the intestines, glistening and snakelike in her belly, below the stomach and deep in the pelvis.
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
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
The female pelvis differs comparatively little from the European; but in the pelves of male Australians which I have examined, the antero-posterior and transverse diameters approach equality more nearly than is the case in Europeans.
From Critiques and Addresses by Thomas Henry Huxley
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
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
The same conditions have been observed from time to time between different breeds of dogs, whose pelves vary.
From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Eugene S. Talbot
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
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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