PELVIC ARCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pelvic arch mean? 

• PELVIC ARCH (noun)
  The noun PELVIC ARCH has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: PELVIC ARCH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PELVIC ARCH (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 ("pelvic arch" is a kind of...):

girdle (an encircling or ringlike structure)

Meronyms (parts of "pelvic arch"):

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 arch" 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)