Pelvis

Definitions: Pelvis

Pelvis

Noun

1. The structure of the vertebrate skeleton supporting the lower limbs in humans and the hind limbs or corresponding parts in other vertebrates.

2. A structure shaped like a funnel in the outlet of the kidney into which urine is discharged before passing into the ureter.

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

Date "pelvis" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1851. (references)

Etymology: Pelvis \Pel"vis\, noun. [Latin expression, basin, laver; compare to Greek expression bowl.]. (Websters 1913)

Health

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

Synonyms: Pelvis

Crosswords: Pelvis

French (pelvis), Latin (basin, bowl, font, pelvis, shallow bowl or basin), Manx (pelvis), Spanish (basin, bowl, pelvis), Turkish (pelvis).

There she is. Princess Pelvis! (The First Wives Club; writing credit: Robert Harling)

Pelvis (1977)

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

References

• The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Transitional Cell Cancer of the Renal Pelvis and Ureter (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Applied Laparoscopic Anatomy: Abdomen and Pelvis (reference)

• Atlas of Human Anatomy: Thorax, Abdomen, Pelvis, Lower Limbs, Skin (reference)

• Cross-Sectional Anatomy for Computed Tomography: A Self-Study Guide with Selected Sections from Head, Neck, Thorax, Abdomen, and Pelvis (reference)

• Endocavitary MRI of the Pelvis (reference)

• Imaging of the Pelvis Mri With Correlations to Ct and Ultrasound (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Shake Your Pelvis (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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

Joad carefully drew the torso of a woman in the dirt, breasts, hips, pelvis.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Figure 2.--Side view of female pelvis. (references)

Placed in the abdomen, pelvis, or chest. (references)

The legs connect to the body at the pelvis. (references)

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

Expressions using "pelvis": Kidney Pelvis ♦ pelvis of the kidney ♦ renal pelvis. Additional references.

Beginning with "pelvis": pelvis-grinding.

Ending with "pelvis": Elvis-the-pelvis.

Afrikaan

bak (bake, basin, bowl, box, container, fry, jug, tub, vat, vessel), bekken (basin, bowl, cymbal). (various references)

Albanian

legeni (basin, bowl), legen (basin, hip, Laver, toiletware, tub, washbowl), komblik. (various references)

Arabic 

‏حوض (basin, cistern, dock, lavatory, pan, receptacle, tank, trough, tub), ‏تجويف الكلية, ‏تجويف الحوض. (various references)

Bulgarian 

таз, бъбречно легенче. (various references)

Chinese 

骨盆 (Pelvic), 髖 (pelvic). (various references)

Czech

pánev (basin, field, pan, saucepan, skillet). (various references)

Danish

kumme (and forming the end of the forehearth, basin, bowl, feeder boot, feeder bowl, feeder nose, feeder spout, nose, part of the feeder containing an opening in which orifice rings of appropriate sizes can be fitted, sink, slop, spout). (various references)

Dutch

bekken (basin, bowl, catchment area, catchment basin, coalfield, cymbal, cymbals, hydrological basin, man-made lake, reservoir, river basin, storage), vont (basin, bowl), kom (basin, bay, bowl, edge bowl, get, plane, reservoir). (various references)

Esperanto

pelvo (basin, bowl). (various references)

Faeroese

koka (basin, bowl), kerald (basin, bowl). (various references)

Farsi 

لگنچه کلیوی , حفره لگن خاصره . (various references)

Finnish

vati (basin, bowl, course, dish, plate, platter). (various references)

French

bassin, pelvis, bol. (various references)

German

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

Greek 

πύελος, λεκάνη (basin, boiler, bowl, cuvette, dome, harbour, pan, swimming pool, trough). (various references)

Hawaiian

legeni (basin, bowl). (various references)

Hebrew 

קטלית, עצם �"כסל, א�'ן �"ירכים, א�'ן �"חלצים. (various references)

Hungarian

medence (basin, bowl, cove, Covey, hearth, hollow, lobe, recess). (various references)

Italian

bacino (basin, bath, bottom, bowl, coalfield, dish, dock, field, graving dock, hipbone, hollow, inland port, pond, roller bump, tank), pelvi. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

骨盤 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

�"つば�". (various references)

Korean 

골반 (Pelvic). (various references)

Malay

mangkuk (basin, bowl). (various references)

Manx

pelvis. (various references)

Norwegian

skål (basin, bowl). (various references)

Pig Latin

elvispay

Portuguese

bacia (basin, bath, bowl, coalfield, dish, drainage-tube, draw, hip, pemphigus, reservoir, roller bump, tank, washbasin). (various references)

Russian 

таз (basin, pan, pelve, washbowl, wash-bowl). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

karlica. (various references)

Spanish

pelvis (basin, bowl), fuente (basin, bowl, chalybeate, deodorant, dish, doghouse, dog-house, emission source, emitter, emitting source, emittor, filling pocket, font, font of type, fount, fountain, headpiece, originating point, platter, pool, quarter, source, source of emission, spring, Springhead, well, wellspring). (various references)

Swedish

skål (basin, bowl, box, cheerio, cheers, container, dish, feeder nose, feeder spout, good health, health, here's to you, jug, pan, patella, pledge, toast, vessel), bäcken- (pelvic), bäcken (basin, bedpan, cymbal, fold, pan, pelvic). (various references)

Turkish

pelvis, havsala, alt karın. (various references)

Turkmen 

зanaklyk. (various references)

Ukranian 

таз (basin), ниркова миска. (various references)

pelvis. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "pelvis": pelvises. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Pelvis" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: elvis, elviss, Pahlevi, Pavlis, peevis, pellis, pelv, pelve, pelves, pelvics, Peplis, pevas, pevit, pevits, Plavis, pluviose, Pluvius, puliv, pulvis, pwelvis. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: evils, lives, piles, plies, slipe, speil, spiel, spile, veils.

-2 letters: evil, isle, leis, lies, lipe, lips, lisp, live, pies, pile, plie, sipe, slip, spiv, veil, vies, vile, vise.

-3 letters: els, lei, lev, lie, lip, lis, pes, pie, pis, psi, sei, sel, sip, vie, vis.

-4 letters: el, es, is, li, pe, pi, si.

+1 letter: pelvics, plosive.

+2 letters: overslip, pelvises, plausive, plosives, pluviose, prelives, prevails, slipover.

+3 letters: coverslip, deprivals, explosive, expulsive, implosive, impulsive, livetraps, overplies, overslips, overslipt, overspill, passively, peevishly, pensively, prelusive, pulverise, replevies, replevins, repulsive, slipcover, slipovers, spillover, vilipends.

+4 letters: compulsive, coverslips, expletives, explosives, implosives, misdevelop, overplaids, oversimple, oversimply, overspills, positively, preclusive, previously, privileges, propulsive, pulverised, pulverises, pulverizes, reprievals, slipcovers, spillovers, sportively, suppletive, verapamils, viperously.

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