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pelvises

n. (plural of pelvis English)

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Most people have pelvises which are locked in one position, either tilted forward or back.

I see before me twelve skulls, twelve pelvises, twenty-four thighbones, twenty-four shin-bones, and a like number of upper arms and lower arms, many ribs and a large number of accessory parts.

He started with four pelvises, which he joined with struts of bound ribs.

Upon this foundation he mounted the four largest femurs and surmounted these with four more pelvises, and braced with more ribs.

Upon this platform he fixed four more femurs, and four final pelvises, bracing and cross-bracing to insure rigidity.

Those mothers with hereditary large pelvises were able to bear large-brained babies who because of their superior intelligence were able to compete successfully in adulthood with the smaller-brained offspring of mothers with smaller pelvises.

They stacked the wall as high as the bones elsewhere, and over a yard deep on either side, pelvises and nothing but pelvises.

Human males had their own “instant” visual triggers: rounded female breasts and pelvises and smooth fern skin.