PELVIS (pelves)

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Irregular inflected form: pelves   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does pelvis mean? 

• PELVIS (noun)
  The noun PELVIS has 2 senses:

1. the structure of the vertebrate skeleton supporting the lower limbs in humans and the hind limbs or corresponding parts in other vertebrates

2. a structure shaped like a funnel in the outlet of the kidney into which urine is discharged before passing into the ureter

  Familiarity information: PELVIS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PELVIS (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 vertebrates

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

hip; pelvic arch; pelvic girdle; pelvis

Hypernyms ("pelvis" is a kind of...):

girdle (an encircling or ringlike structure)

Meronyms (parts of "pelvis"):

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 ("pelvis" 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)

Derivation:

pelvic (of or relating to the pelvis)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A structure shaped like a funnel in the outlet of the kidney into which urine is discharged before passing into the ureter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

pelvis; renal pelvis

Hypernyms ("pelvis" is a kind of...):

bodily cavity; cavity; cavum ((anatomy) a natural hollow or sinus within the body)

Holonyms ("pelvis" is a part of...):

kidney (either of two bean-shaped excretory organs that filter wastes (especially urea) from the blood and excrete them and water in urine)

 Context examples 

The ovaries are located in the pelvis, one on each side of the uterus.

(Ovarian, NCI Dictionary)

They are located in the pelvis, one on each side of the uterus.

(Ovarian Disorders, NIH)

It may occur in the bladder or the renal pelvis.

(Papillary Transitional Cell Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Surgery to make an opening from the outside of the body to the renal pelvis (part of the kidney that collects urine).

(Nephrostomy, NCI Dictionary)

Vesicoureteral reflux in which there is urine reflux into the ureter and renal pelvis.

(Grade II Vesicoureteral Reflux, NCI Thesaurus)

Most commonly occurs in the paravertebral region, chest wall, pelvis and lower extremities.

(Extraosseous Ewing Sarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Later, a region emerged near the pelvis.

(What makes a mammal a mammal? Our spine, say scientists, National Science Foundation)

It is also being studied for the treatment of diarrhea caused by radiation therapy to the pelvis.

(Glutamine, NCI Dictionary)

The parametrium helps connect the uterus to other tissues in the pelvis.

(Parametrium, NCI Dictionary)

Having to do with the pelvis (the lower part of the abdomen located between the hip bones).

(Pelvic, NCI Dictionary)