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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pubis \Pu"bis\, n. [NL. See Pubes.] (Anat.) The ventral and anterior of the three principal bones composing either half of the pelvis; sharebone; pubic bone.
Wiktionary
n. the pubic bone; the part of the hipbone forming the front arch of the pelvis
WordNet
n. one of the three sections of the hipbone; together the two pubic bones form the front of the pelvis [syn: pubic bone, os pubis]
[also: pubes (pl)]
Wikipedia
Pubis may refer to:
- Pubis (bone)
- Mons pubis, a padding of fat that protects the pubis bone
In vertebrates, the pubic bone is the ventral and anterior of the three principal bones composing either half of the pelvis.
Usage examples of "pubis".
The commonly associated defects are: More or less completely septate bladder, atresia ani, or more rarely double anus, double urethra, increased breadth of the bony pelvis with defect of the symphysis pubis, and possibly duplication of the lower end of the spine, and hernia of some of the abdominal contents into a perineal pouch.
The woman, aged twenty-two, was pale, diminutive in size, and showed an enormous abdomen, which measured 50 inches in circumference at the umbilicus and 27 inches from the ensiform cartilage to the pubes.
Fifth Tennessee Cavalry who was shot in the right gluteal region, the bullet penetrating the bladder and making its exit through the pubis.
There was a wound consisting of a ragged rent from above the os pubis, extending obliquely to the left and upward, through which protruded the great omentum, the descending and transverse colon, most of the small intestines, as well as the pyloric extremity of the stomach.
Kalschmidt of Jena possessed the pubes of a woman dead of plica, the hair of which was of such length that it must have easily gone around the body.
He sought aid at the London Hospital, but the priapism was persistent, and when he left, on May 10th, the penis formed an acute angle with the pubes, and he again had free intercourse with the same female.
He retained his shock of black hair, along with hair at chest, pubes and legs.
I was placing the pubes and ribs in a solution of hot water and Spic and Span when Larabee entered, followed by Sheila Jansen.
He saw a woman in her mid thirties, plump, amply breasted, bellied and thighed, well tufted in pubes and armpits, plain of face save for sparkling brown eyes, dark hair curling down behind her shoulders.
Once more, she saw the feet arch up onto tiptoe as her tormentress pressed her pubis against the glass.
Parry of Berkshire in 1668 voided the bones of a fetus through the flesh above the os pubis, and in 1684 she was alive and well, having had healthy children afterward.
The patient, it appears, had a large exostosis on the body of the pubes which, during parturition, was forced through the walls of the uterus and bladder, resulting in death.
They exhibited a relatively short metatarsus, the pubis was directed backward, and they had long processes on the tail vertebrae, which stiffened the back half of the long tail.
There was a third leg attached to a continuation of the processus coceygeus of the sacrum, and in addition to well developed mammae regularly situated, there were two rudimentary ones close together above the pubes.
These names refer to the morphology of the hip joint and ostentation of the pubis bone, which is more typically reptile-like in saurischians and is superficially like that of a bird in ornithischians.