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    PELVIC GIRDLE

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

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

    Synonyms:

    hip; pelvic arch; pelvic girdle; pelvis

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    Nouns denoting body parts

    Hypernyms ("pelvic girdle" is a kind of...):

    girdle (an encircling or ringlike structure)

    Meronyms (parts of "pelvic girdle"):

    coccyx; tail bone (the end of the vertebral column in humans and tailless apes)

    hipbone; innominate bone (large flaring bone forming one half of the pelvis; made up of the ilium and ischium and pubis)

    ilium (the upper and widest of the three bones making up the hipbone)

    ischial bone; ischium; os ischii (one of the three sections of the hipbone; situated below the ilium)

    os pubis; pubic bone; pubis (one of the three sections of the hipbone; together these two bones form the front of the pelvis)

    sacrum (wedge-shaped bone consisting of five fused vertebrae forming the posterior part of the pelvis; its base connects with the lowest lumbar vertebra and its tip with the coccyx)

    articulatio coxae; coxa; hip; hip joint (the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum)

    Holonyms ("pelvic girdle" is a part of...):

    appendicular skeleton (the part of the skeleton that includes the pectoral girdle and the pelvic girdle and the upper and lower limbs)

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