Definitions for pubis

pubis pu·bis

Spelling: [pyoo-bis]
IPA: /ˈpyu bɪs/

Pubis is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 45 anagrams from letters in pubis (bipsu).

Definitions for pubis

noun

  1. that part of either innominate bone that, with the corresponding part of the other, forms the front of the pelvis.

Origin of pubis

1590-1600; short for New Latin os pūbis bone of the pubes1

Examples for pubis

The symphysis is rather short and formed by the pubis alone.

The bones of the pubis do not join, and the young when produced are large.

It may lie above the pubis in the anterior wall of the bladder.

In the human skeleton, the pubis of one side is united to that of the opposite side, to form the pubic symphysis.

The pubis probably corresponds with the pre-pubis of Dinosaurs.

In one leg, the posteroventral corner of pars iliofemoralis arises from the pubis.

These two portions, pubis and ischium, limit an oval orifice, the subpubic foramen.

The obturator foramen is a small oval opening posteroventral to the acetabulum between the ischium and the pubis.

The pubis is slender, and the ischium is elevated and robust.

They are unknown in any other existing animals, unless present in Crocodiles, in which ischium and pubis are always undivided.

Word Value for pubis
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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