ilium
IPA: ɪɫiʌm
noun
- (anatomy) The upper and widest of the three bones that make up each side of the hipbone and pelvis.
- (anatomy, obsolete) The ileum, part of the small intestine (in modern usage, misspelling of ileum.).
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Examples of "ilium" in Sentences
- She said that I had a lack of motion in my sacrum and ilium.
- The ilium is short anterposteriorly relative to the length of the pelvis.
- Hence the ilium is a pleurapophysis, the ischium and pubis are both hæmapophyses.
- A statement from Barry Simpson, racing manager to the owner, Sir Robert Ogden, said a fracture to his ilium wing had been discovered by "a full-scale veterinary investigation" last summer.
- While some people eat bovine tonsils, in the United States they are considered a Specified Risk Material associated with mad cow's disease (BSE) and therefore prohibited along with the distal ilium by the FDA.
- In the first two groups the pubis projects downward and forward as it does in the majority of reptiles, and the ilium is a high rounded plate; while in the others the pelvis is of a wholly different type, strongly suggesting the pelvis of birds.
- A left 'ilium', almost perfect, and belonging to the femur: a fragment of the right 'scapula'; the anterior extremity of a rib of the right side; and the same part of a rib of the left side; the hinder part of a rib of the right side; and lastly, two hinder portions and one middle portion of ribs, which from their unusually rounded shape, and abrupt curvature, more resemble the ribs of a carnivorous animal than those of a man.
- The cavity of the lesser pelvis is bounded in front and below by the pubic symphysis and the superior rami of the pubes; above and behind, by the pelvic surfaces of the sacrum and coccyx, which, curving forward above and below, contract the superior and inferior apertures of the cavity; laterally, by a broad, smooth, quadrangular area of bone, corresponding to the inner surfaces of the body and superior ramus of the ischium and that part of the ilium which is below the arcuate line.
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