Definitions for pelvis

pelvis pel·vis

Spelling: [pel-vis]
IPA: /ˈpɛl vɪs/

Pelvis is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 110 anagrams from letters in pelvis (eilpsv).

Definitions for pelvis

noun

  1. the basinlike cavity in the lower part of the trunk of many vertebrates, formed in humans by the innominate bones, sacrum, etc.
  2. the bones forming this cavity.
  3. the cavity of the kidney that receives the urine before it is passed into the ureter.

Origin of pelvis

1605-15; New Latin; Latin: basin; akin to Greek pellís bowl

Examples for pelvis

For just a moment, I froze and found myself imagining what it would feel like to break a pelvis.

The point of the buttock (O) is the rearmost point of the pelvis.

The front part of the pelvis is called the point of the hip (S).

This week, Ralph Lauren drew criticism for doctoring a photograph of a model to make her head look double the size of her pelvis.

Trauma to the leg or to the hips and pelvis might cause a clot, but we were not told of any leg injury.

Deformities of the pelvis, etc., should rule out a consideration of pregnancy.

Making the pelvis loop may be easily followed in diagram in Fig. 17.

The pelvis of the female differs considerably from the pelvis of the male.

In Area F searchers discovered the bones of her trunk and pelvis with both upper leg bones still connected.

In an airline seat, the hips and pelvis rotate forward and the S curve flattens.

Word Value for pelvis
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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