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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 clue
- Wide ones often signal female skeletons to forensics.
- name origin
- Latin for basin, because it cradles like one.
- birth trick
- Hormones loosen its joints to let babies pass.
- load bearing
- Transfers your entire torso's weight to your legs.
- fused bones
- Three childhood bones merge into one adult hip.
lucy skeleton — 3.2 million year old australopithecus fossil discovered in ethiopia, most complete pelvis of early hominins
pelvic inlet diameter — obstetric measurement determining childbirth viability, varies 10-13cm across human populations