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the body's bowl of bone, quietly holding your guts and your whole upright posture together.
means The basin-shaped ring of bone at the base of your spine that connects the trunk to the legs and cradles the lower organs.
from Straight from Latin pelvis, meaning 'basin' or 'bowl' — anatomists looked at that broad, scooped curve of bone and saw exactly what it resembled: a kitchen washbasin. The same shape-sense survives in 'pelvic' and even in the geological 'pelvis' of a river basin's logic, though English borrowed the medical term wholesale only a few centuries ago.
shape clueWide ones often signal female skeletons to forensics.
name originLatin for basin, because it cradles like one.
birth trickHormones loosen its joints to let babies pass.
load bearingTransfers your entire torso's weight to your legs.
fused bonesThree childhood bones merge into one adult hip.