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Latin name for ancient Troy
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ilium
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n. 1 (context anatomy obsolete English) The ileum. 2 (context anatomy English) The upper and widest of the three bones that make up each side of the hipbone and pelvis.
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Ilium is a fictitious town in eastern New York state, used as a setting for many of Kurt Vonnegut 's novels. The name most likely refers to Troy, New York (" Ilium " was the name the Romans gave to ancient Troy ), although Troy is mentioned as a separate ...
Usage examples of ilium.
My eyes were a little blurry as I ran them over her femur, acetabulum, ilium, sacrum, and so on.
The digestive organs were double and separate as far as the lower third of the ilium, and the cecum was on the left side and single, in common with the lower bowel.
I read such sentences like poesy: ilium, ischium, os innominatum, ecto-cuneiform and cnemial crest, platelets and thrombin, keloid, cicatrix.
Priami fatorum, hic exitus ilium sorte tulit Troiam incensam et prolapsa videntem Pergama, tot quondam populis terrisque superbum regnatorem Asiae.
He graduated from Ilium High School in the upper third of his class, and attended night sessions at the Ilium School of Optometry for one semester before being drafted for military service in the Second World War.
His father-in-law, who owned the Ilium School of Optometry, who had set Billy up in practice, was a genius in his field.
The ball entered the abdomen two inches above the crest of the right ilium, a little to the rear of the anterior superior spinous process, and took a downward and forward course.
The horn entered at the anterior superior spinous process of the ilium, involving the parietes and the uterus.
Achaeans, the dead Amazons, the dead horses, and the distant walls of Ilium and warring armies just visible through the now vibrating Brane Hole.
The first severs the rectus abdominis and the external abdominal muscles, following the rib line to the right ilium.
His towering form strode over Ilium and walked across the miles between here and the shore like Astyanax playing in his sandbox, striding over his toy soldiers.
Ilium should be made to break the current truce, she seeks out the archer Pandarus, son of Lycaon.
Not far down the Scamander lay Troy-fabled Ilium, from the burning ruins of which his ancestor Aeneas had fled before Agamemnon could capture him.
Achilles out of his tent, filled with killing wrath, thus sealing the fate of Hector and Ilium and Andromache and Helen and all the rest of us.
Ilium echo to the crash of shields pounded hide to hide, the scrape of pike, the rumble of chariots, and the screams of dying men and horses.