pelvic arch

pelvic arch

n. See pelvic girdle.

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pelvic arch - the structure of the vertebrate skeleton supporting the lower limbs in humans and the hind limbs or corresponding parts in other vertebratespelvic girdle, pelvis, hipcoccyx, tail bone - the end of the vertebral column in humans and tailless apeshipbone, innominate bone - large flaring bone forming one half of the pelvis; made up of the ilium and ischium and pubisilium - the upper and widest of the three bones making up the hipboneischial bone, ischium, os ischii - one of the three sections of the hipbone; situated below the iliumos pubis, pubic bone, pubis - one of the three sections of the hipbone; together these two bones form the front of the pelvissacrum - wedge-shaped bone consisting of five fused vertebrae forming the posterior part of the pelvis; its base connects with the lowest lumbar vertebra and its tip with the coccyxgirdle - an encircling or ringlike structureappendicular skeleton - the part of the skeleton that includes the pectoral girdle and the pelvic girdle and the upper and lower limbsarticulatio coxae, coxa, hip joint, hip - the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum