PUBIC BONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pubic bone mean? 

• PUBIC BONE (noun)
  The noun PUBIC BONE has 1 sense:

1. one of the three sections of the hipbone; together these two bones form the front of the pelvis

  Familiarity information: PUBIC BONE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PUBIC BONE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of the three sections of the hipbone; together these two bones form the front of the pelvis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

os pubis; pubic bone; pubis

Hypernyms ("pubic bone" is a kind of...):

bone; os (rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates)

Holonyms ("pubic bone" is a part of...):

hip; pelvic arch; pelvic girdle; pelvis (the structure of the vertebrate skeleton supporting the lower limbs in humans and the hind limbs or corresponding parts in other vertebrates)

 Context examples 

An artery arising from the anterior or posterior trunk of the internal iliac artery that supplies the ilium and pubic bones as well as the obturator and adductor muscles.

(Obturator Artery, NCI Thesaurus)