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Pelvic

Definition: Pelvic

Pelvic

Adjective

1. Of or relating to the pelvis; "pelvic exam"; "pelvic inflammation".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Specialty Definitions: Pelvic

DomainDefinitions

Health

Pertaining to the pelvis. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: Pelvic

English words defined with "pelvic": Agnatha, Anguilliformes, appendicular skeleton, arteria iliolumbalisbatfish, biplane flying fish, blennioid, blennioid fishcatfish, culdoscope, culdoscopy, Cyclopterus lumpusepidural, epidural anaesthesia, epidural anesthesiafour-wing flying fish, frank breech, frank breech deliveryHip girdle, hypogastric artery, hypogastric plexusiliac vein, iliolumbar artery, internal iliac arterylightening, limb-girdle muscular dystrophy, Liparis liparis, lumpfishMugiloideaorder Anguilliformes, order ApodesPelvic arch, pelvic cavity, pelvic fin, Pelvic girdle, pelvic inflammatory disease, PID, plexus hypogastricus, plexus sacralis, proctocelerectocele, regional anaesthesia, regional anesthesia, relaxinsacral plexus, sea snail, seasnail, snailfish, suborder Mugiloidea, superclass Agnathauterusvaginismus, vena iliaca, ventral, ventral finwolf fish, wolffish, womb. (references)
Specialty definitions using "pelvic": CuldoscopesMeigs' SyndromePelvic NeoplasmsRetroperitoneal SpaceShort Rib-Polydactyly Syndrome, stage III cancer of the cervixtotal nodal irradiation, transvaginal ultrasoundVena Cava, Inferior. (references)

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Modern Usage: Pelvic

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Yeah, I had an appointment for a pelvic examination. (The X Files; writing credit: Chris Carter; Frank Spotnitz)

Lyrics

Who refuses to subdue to these pelvic ostentations. (You Will Be A Hot Dancer; performing artist: Incubus)

Clever

The pelvic exam will be done later on the floor. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

The Last Days of Danny Pelvic & The Thrusters (1998)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Pelvic

DomainTitle

References

  • The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Atlas of Clinical Gynecology: Urogynecology and Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery, Volume 5 (reference)

  • Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery (reference)

  • Fitness for the Pelvic Floor (reference)

  • Imaging Pelvic Floor Disorders (reference)

  • Manual of Pelvic Surgery (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Pelvic

Illustrations:
Pelvic

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Photo Album: Pelvic

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

Shown is a line drawing of a woman's pelvic area showing the fallopian tubes, ovaries, uterus, cervix, and vagina.Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Line drawing (lateral view) showing detail of pelvic area (female).Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Untreated, chlamydia can cause severe, costly reproductive and other health problems including both short- and long-term consequences, i.e. pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), infertility, and potentially fatal tubal pregnancy.Credit: CDC.

[Demonstration in pelvic measurement to midwives].Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Pelvic

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

This takes the guesswork out of pelvic muscle exercise. (references)

The pelvic floor muscles also help keep the urethra closed. (references)

Nerves must control the muscles of the bladder and pelvic floor. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Pelvic

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Fran Drescher

Well, I had pelvic exams. I had ultrasound. None of the ultrasounds showed a tumor the size of a walnut that was sitting in my uterus.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Pelvic

"Pelvic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pelvic" is used about 184 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%18422,714

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Pelvic

Expressions using "pelvic": pelvic arch pelvic cavity Pelvic Exenteration pelvic fin Pelvic Floor pelvic girdle pelvic inflammatory disease Pelvic Neoplasms Pelvic Pain. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "pelvic": pelvic-floor.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Pelvic

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
  ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  pelvic inflammatory disease

435

  pelvic cancer

25

  pelvic exam

403

  pelvic inflammatory disease pid

25

  pelvic pain

265

  pelvic congestion syndrome

24

  pelvic

229

  bones pelvic

24

  pelvic ultrasound

102

  pelvic sonogram

23

  exam pelvic picture

67

  exam pelvic pic

23

  pelvic inflamatory disease

51

  mass pelvic

23

  pelvic examination

49

  pelvic congestion

21

  pelvic infection

46

  during pain pelvic pregnancy

21

  exam pelvic video

42

  pelvic muscle

21

  pelvic fracture

41

  pelvic pain pregnancy

21

  pelvic floor exercise

39

  pelvic tilt

20

  pelvic adhesion

36

  pelvic inflammatory disease symptom

20

  pelvic floor

36

  pelvic exam and pap test

18

  chronic pelvic pain

34

  pelvic inflammatory

18

  pelvic floor muscle

30

  pelvic exercise

17

  exam pelvic photo

29

  anatomy pelvic

17

  your first pelvic exam

28

  arthritis bladder bone dysfunction floor pain pelic pelvic

16

  pelvic bone

28

  disease inflamitory pelvic

15

  pelvic floor dysfunction

27

  pelvic pressure

15
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Pelvic

Language Translations for "pelvic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i legenit, i komblikut. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏حوضي, ‏ذو علاقة بحوض الورك. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

тазов. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

骨盆 (Pelvis), (pelvis). (various references)

   

Czech

  

pánevní. (various references)

   

Danish

  

pelvinus, pelvicus, pelveo, bækken-. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

pelvinus, pelvicus. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

لگنی , واقع درنزدیک لگن خاصره , وابسته به لگن خاصره . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

pelvicus, lantio-. (various references)

   

French

  

pelvien. (various references)

   

German

  

pelvin, Becken (basin, basins, bath, bosh, bowl, cistern, cymbal, cymbals, dock, fish garth, kettle, pan, pelves, pelvis, pond, pool, reservoir, sink, stilling pool, tank, water bosh, water cushion). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πυελικός, λεκανικόσ. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

של א'ן "ירכים, א' י (basin-like). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

medence-. (various references)

   

Italian

  

pelvico. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

腰部 (hips, loins, pelvic region, waist). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ないし" (confidential report, in the heart, inmost heart, innermost thoughts, one's mind, pelvic examination, real intention, unofficial report), ようぶ (hips, loins, pelvic region, waist, Western-style dance). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

골반 (Pelvis). (various references)

   

Manx

  

pelvagh, craue ny lurgey (cannon bone, tibia). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

elvicpay

   

Portuguese

  

pele de animal com pêlo, pélvico. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

pelvian. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

тазовый. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

karlični. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

pélvico. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

bäcken- (pelvis). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

pelvise ait, leğen (basin, bowl, dolly tub, washbasin, washbowl, washtub). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

тазовий. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Pelvic

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

pelvicus. (various references)

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Derivations & Misspellings: Pelvic

Derivations

Words beginning with "pelvic": pelvics. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Pelvic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Belvik, Melvich, Pahlevi, Pasvik, pavic, Pavlick, Pavlovich, pelic, pelv, pelve, pelvics, peplic, Perleihc, pervic, Pilic, puliv, Selvick. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Pelvic"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "pelvic" (pronounced pe"lvik)
3-v i kcivic.

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Anagrams: Pelvic

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-i-l-p-v"

-2 letters: ceil, clip, epic, evil, lice, lipe, live, pice, pile, plie, veil, vice, vile.

-3 letters: cel, cep, ice, lei, lev, lie, lip, pec, pic, pie, vie.

-4 letters: el, li, pe, pi.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-i-l-p-v"
 

+1 letter: pelvics.

 

+3 letters: coverslip, placative, slipcover.

 

+4 letters: completive, compulsive, copulative, coverslips, preclusive, prevocalic, slipcovers, velocipede.

 

+5 letters: applicative, compulsives, copulatives, deceptively, duplicative, explicative, implicative, inceptively, perceivable, perceivably, receptively, replicative, speculative, velocipedes.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Pelvic


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 65 6C 76 69 63

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01100101 01101100 01110110 01101001 01100011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#101 &#108 &#118 &#105 &#99

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0065 006C 0076 0069 0063

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

507178887569

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Quotations: Spoken
9. Usage Frequency
10. Expressions
11. Expressions: Internet
12. Translations: Modern
13. Translations: Ancient
14. Derivations
15. Rhymes
16. Anagrams
17. Orthography
18. Bibliography


  

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