Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The uppermost and widest of the three bones constituting either of the lateral halves of the pelvis.
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- noun anatomy, obsolete The
ileum . - noun anatomy The
upper and widest of the threebones that make up each side of thehipbone andpelvis .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The ilium is short anterposteriorly relative to the length of the pelvis.
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Hence the ilium is a pleurapophysis, the ischium and pubis are both hæmapophyses.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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In the first two groups the pubis projects downward and forward as it does in the majority of reptiles, and the ilium is a high rounded plate; while in the others the pelvis is of a wholly different type, strongly suggesting the pelvis of birds.
Dinosaurs With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections William Diller Matthew 1900
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The cavity of the lesser pelvis is bounded in front and below by the pubic symphysis and the superior rami of the pubes; above and behind, by the pelvic surfaces of the sacrum and coccyx, which, curving forward above and below, contract the superior and inferior apertures of the cavity; laterally, by a broad, smooth, quadrangular area of bone, corresponding to the inner surfaces of the body and superior ramus of the ischium and that part of the ilium which is below the arcuate line.
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A left 'ilium', almost perfect, and belonging to the femur: a fragment of the right 'scapula'; the anterior extremity of a rib of the right side; and the same part of a rib of the left side; the hinder part of a rib of the right side; and lastly, two hinder portions and one middle portion of ribs, which from their unusually rounded shape, and abrupt curvature, more resemble the ribs of a carnivorous animal than those of a man.
Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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A left 'ilium', almost perfect, and belonging to the femur: a fragment of the right 'scapula'; the anterior extremity of a rib of the right side; and the same part of a rib of the left side; the hinder part of a rib of the right side; and lastly, two hinder portions and one middle portion of ribs, which from their unusually rounded shape, and abrupt curvature, more resemble the ribs of a carnivorous animal than those of a man.
On Some Fossil Remains of Man Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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A statement from Barry Simpson, racing manager to the owner, Sir Robert Ogden, said a fracture to his ilium wing had been discovered by "a full-scale veterinary investigation" last summer.
Lame Pandorama out of Hennessy and doubtful for Gold Cup 2011
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While some people eat bovine tonsils, in the United States they are considered a Specified Risk Material associated with mad cow's disease (BSE) and therefore prohibited along with the distal ilium by the FDA.
Wednesday Breakfast Bender Emil Steiner 2008
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She said that I had a lack of motion in my sacrum and ilium.
Misty Misty May-Treanor With Jill Lieber Steeg 2010
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She said that I had a lack of motion in my sacrum and ilium.
Misty Misty May-Treanor With Jill Lieber Steeg 2010
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