acanthopelyx

acanthopelyx

This term is used in medical French for the pelvis and sacrum as a structural unit; it was brought into medical English in the International Dictionary of Medicine (1986) but is not in wide use.

acanthopelyx

(a-kan?tho-pel'iks) [ acantho- + Gr. pelyx, wooden bowl, pelvis] Acanthopelvis.