pubis
Americannoun
noun
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The forwardmost of the three bones that fuse together to form each of the hipbones.
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Origin of pubis
1590–1600; short for New Latin os pūbis bone of the pubes 1
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Going forward, restorers plan to make fresh casts out of resin to replace the plaster patches that covered missing pieces, including on part of the nape of the neck and the pubis.
From Seattle Times ● May 13, 2023
An estimated 2,500 years of bony inflammation irritating one’s pubis is, simply put, not a good scene.
From Slate ● Jan. 20, 2023
“The laceration ran for 12-14 cm from the left groin across the pubis to the right and 10 cm inferiorly into the perineum,” the study authors wrote, in BMJ Case Reports.
From Fox News ● Dec. 3, 2019
The body of the pubis articulates with the pubis of the opposite hip bone at the pubic symphysis.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
On this account there is no symphysis pubis in birds.
From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by Cuyer, ?douard
But another tells a different tale; one where he went home, used this device to clear the pubes out of his shower, and remained perfectly happy.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 8, 2016
There was some hair in the axillae and on the pubes, but only the slightest down on the scalp, and even that was absent on the skin.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
On examining the parts a single opening was seen, as in the preceding case, from the pubes to the coccyx.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
Fur chocolate brown above, lighter on head and neck; beneath dark brown with lighter tips on the pubes, and along the thighs dirty white or pale buff.
From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Sterndale, Robert Armitage
The woman, aged twenty-two, was pale, diminutive in size, and showed an enormous abdomen, which measured 50 inches in circumference at the umbilicus and 27 inches from the ensiform cartilage to the pubes.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
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