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PELVIC GIRDLE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The structure of the vertebrate skeleton supporting the lower limbs in humans and the hind limbs or corresponding parts in other vertebrates
Synonyms:
hip; pelvic arch; pelvic girdle; pelvis
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("pelvic girdle" is a kind of...):
girdle (an encircling or ringlike structure)
Meronyms (parts of "pelvic girdle"):
coccyx; tail bone (the end of the vertebral column in humans and tailless apes)
hipbone; innominate bone (large flaring bone forming one half of the pelvis; made up of the ilium and ischium and pubis)
ilium (the upper and widest of the three bones making up the hipbone)
ischial bone; ischium; os ischii (one of the three sections of the hipbone; situated below the ilium)
os pubis; pubic bone; pubis (one of the three sections of the hipbone; together these two bones form the front of the pelvis)
sacrum (wedge-shaped bone consisting of five fused vertebrae forming the posterior part of the pelvis; its base connects with the lowest lumbar vertebra and its tip with the coccyx)
articulatio coxae; coxa; hip; hip joint (the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum)
Holonyms ("pelvic girdle" is a part of...):
appendicular skeleton (the part of the skeleton that includes the pectoral girdle and the pelvic girdle and the upper and lower limbs)
