Pelvic

Definition: Pelvic

Pelvic

Adjective

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

Specialty Definitions: Pelvic

Domain	Definitions
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 iliolumbalis ♦ batfish, biplane flying fish, blennioid, blennioid fish ♦ catfish, culdoscope, culdoscopy, Cyclopterus lumpus ♦ epidural, epidural anaesthesia, epidural anesthesia ♦ four-wing flying fish, frank breech, frank breech delivery ♦ Hip girdle, hypogastric artery, hypogastric plexus ♦ iliac vein, iliolumbar artery, internal iliac artery ♦ lightening, limb-girdle muscular dystrophy, Liparis liparis, lumpfish ♦ Mugiloidea ♦ order Anguilliformes, order Apodes ♦ Pelvic arch, pelvic cavity, pelvic fin, Pelvic girdle, pelvic inflammatory disease, PID, plexus hypogastricus, plexus sacralis, proctocele ♦ rectocele, regional anaesthesia, regional anesthesia, relaxin ♦ sacral plexus, sea snail, seasnail, snailfish, suborder Mugiloidea, superclass Agnatha ♦ uterus ♦ vaginismus, vena iliaca, ventral, ventral fin ♦ wolf fish, wolffish, womb. (references)

Specialty definitions using "pelvic": Culdoscopes ♦ Meigs' Syndrome ♦ Pelvic Neoplasms ♦ Retroperitoneal Space ♦ Short Rib-Polydactyly Syndrome, stage III cancer of the cervix ♦ total nodal irradiation, transvaginal ultrasound ♦ Vena Cava, Inferior. (references)

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Modern Usage: Pelvic

Domain	Usage
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)
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Commercial Usage: Pelvic

Domain	Title
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)
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Image Slideshow: Pelvic

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Photo Album: Pelvic

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & 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.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Pelvic

Subject	Topic	Quote
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

Speaker	Phrase(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.
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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 Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	184	22,714

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.
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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.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency 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), 髖 (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

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 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 Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "pelvic" (pronounced pe"lvik)
3	-v i k	civic.
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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.
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