PELVIC GIRDLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pelvic girdle mean? 

• PELVIC GIRDLE (noun)
  The noun PELVIC GIRDLE 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 GIRDLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PELVIC GIRDLE (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 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)

 Context examples 

An autoimmune disease characterized by weakness and fatigability of proximal muscles, particularly of the pelvic girdle, lower extremities, trunk, and shoulder girdle.

(Lambert Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Any of the joints within the pelvic girdle.

(Joint of the Pelvic Girdle, NCI Thesaurus)