pubicadj.

1819 New Eng. Jrnl. Med. & Surg. 8 274 The child's head occupied a great portion of the pelvic cavity; the occiput had nearly arrived beneath the pubic arch [Fr. l'arcade du pubis].

1842 E. Wilson Anatomist's Vade Mecum (ed. 2) 110 The posterior pubic ligament..uniting the pubic bones posteriorly.

1897 T. J. Parker & W. A. Haswell Text-bk. Zool. II. 282 Attached to the anterior border of the pubic region there occurs in many Urodela and in Xenopus, a rod of cartilage.

1927 H. T. Lowe-Porter tr. T. Mann Magic Mountain (London ed.) I. v. 351 The acrid, steaming shadows of the arm-pits corresponded in a mystic triangle to the pubic darkness, just as the eyes did to the red, epithelial mouth-opening.

1962 R. M. Gordon & M. M. J. Lavoipierre Entomol. for Students of Med. xxxvi. 224 Phthirus pubis, commonly known as the ‘crab louse’ or ‘pubic louse’ has been recognised since the earliest times as a parasite of man.

1994 B. A. Staples Parallel Time i. 7 Pelvis: There is a chip fracture of the left pubic ramus.

2003 N. Rush Mortals xxix. 435 She had had devil horns strategically tattooed on her lower belly so that they appeared to be emerging from the top of her pubic escutcheon.

1892 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 21 200 Some wore a pubic shell, but most had no such covering.

1940 A. Upfield Bushranger of Skies xi. 130 That Jack Johnson wore only the pubic tassel announced his non-employment by the station.

1959 S. H. Courtier Death in Dream Time ii. 19 The bewildering display of aboriginal weapons and implements..head-dresses and pubic bands.

1992 Tucson (Arizona) Weekly 23 Sept. 14/2 I told her that a merkin is a pubic toupée.

1836 Lancet 15 Oct. 141/2 Mons veneris not much rounded off; little pubic hair, and not ascending to the umbilicus.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 456 I have made a pervaginal examination and, after application of the acid test to 5427 anal, axillary, pectoral and pubic hairs, I declare him to be virgo intacta.

1994 L. de Bernières Capt. Corelli's Mandolin xxx. 200 They trimmed and shaped their pubic hair so religiously that soldiers who liked to burrow..into a good, abundant, honest muff would come away feeling flat and cheated.

1833 Lancet 14 Sept. 797/2 The symphysis pubis was separated, so that the space of nearly two inches intervened between the spines of the pubic bones.

1928 C. S. Whitehead & C. A. Hoff Ethical Sex Relations (new ed.) i. i. 36 The labia majora..commence at the pubic bone and descend underneath to within an inch and a half of the anus.

2005 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 3 Aug. a15/1 The medical term is ‘athletic pubalgia,’ and it happens when muscle or other tissue pulls away from the pubic bone.

1836 Lancet 19 Mar. 973/2 There was no trace of depression or curvature above the pubic symphysis.

a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 1302 A third bone—the pubis—runs across ventrally in front of the ischium, and unites with its fellow from the other side to form the pubic symphysis.

2001 Oxoniensia 65 192 This, and the appearance of the pubic symphysis suggest an age of 24–5 years.