pubis

American  

[pyoo-bis] / ˈpju bɪs /

noun

Anatomy.

• pubes
  plural

1. that part of either innominate bone that, with the corresponding part of the other, forms the front of the pelvis.

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pubis British  

/ ˈpjuːbɪs /

noun

1. one of the three sections of the hipbone that forms part of the pelvis

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pubis Scientific  

/ pyo̅o̅′bĭs /

• pubes
  plural

1. The forwardmost of the three bones that fuse together to form each of the hipbones.

2. See more at skeleton

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• prepubis
  noun

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• pubes
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of pubis

1590–1600; short for New Latin os pūbis bone of the pubes ¹

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

pubis pubes

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

In such a Dinosaur as the American carnivorous Ceratosaurus the two bars of the pubis and ischium remain separate and diverging, and there is no film of bone extending over the interspace between them.

From Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by H. G. Seeley

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

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 Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle

Their complexion varies from reddish-yellow to brownish-black, with head-hair often of a russet-brown, and body-hair, black and bristly on upper lip, chin, chest, axillae and pubes, yellowish and fleecy on cheeks, back and limbs.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various

Virgil's lines are no less picturesque;168 and though he does not mention the pagus, he is clearly thinking of a lustratio in which more than one familia takes part— cuncta tibi Cererem pubes agrestis adoret.

From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by W. Warde Fowler

The distended bladder can be felt as a rounded swelling above the pubes, and perhaps reaching to the level of the navel.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various

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