pelves
- plural of pelvis.
Example Sentences
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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
What O'Keeffe wanted to do included huge bee's-eye views of blossoms, asphalt cityscapes, white skulls and pelves set against hard blue Southwestern skies, and �lately�such stark, sun-filled abstractions as From the Plains.
From Time Magazine Archive
Here are reptiles with bat-like wings, and others with bird-like pelves and legs adapted for bipedal locomotion.
From A History of Science — Volume 3 by Williams, Henry Smith
Of two women with pelves of the same contraction one may require the section and the other may have a normal labour.
From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin
We can measure the pelves, but the size of the child's head is not satisfactorily measurable.
From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin
