But it is the striking contrast in the pelvis that furnishes a sexual significance that is of greater value than all the rest of the skeleton together.
The differences as detailed in the books can be objected to only on the possibility of a so-called hermaphrodite pelvis in one of the other sex.
Dissect the organs away from the pelvic bones by carrying the point of the knife around the pelvis close to the bone.
We sometimes see a very large pelvisin a subject who by a teratological freak became a man.
This with the prostate gland, bladder, and penis attached is removed by carrying the knife around the pelvisclose to the bone and separating the pubic attachments.
The pelvis of the kidneys should be examined for calculi and the evidence of inflammatory lesions.
There may be little blood in and about the wound, but it collects in the right iliac region or in the pelvis and is not wholly coagulated.
No doubt the female type of pelvis can be recognised in childhood, and even before birth, but the differences of male and female pelves before puberty are so slight that it requires the eye of an expert to distinguish them.
This is proved by the fact that in those rare cases in which the internal organs of generation are absent, or fail to develop, there is a corresponding failure in the pelvis to alter into the normal adult shape.
The part of the pelvis which forms an arch in front of the bladder.
Since the bones of the pelvis are rigid, while those of the fetal skull are malleable, the head is molded as it descends into the pelvic cavity, so that its passage may be made the easier.
The pelvis of the female differs considerably from the pelvis of the male.
The pelvis becomes broader, and the chest or thorax also becomes broader and larger.
The two illustrations show the differences between the male and female pelvis very clearly.
If the female pelvis were exactly like the male pelvis, a full-term living child could never pass through it.
The differences in the pelves (the plural of pelvis is pelves) of the male and female become fully marked at puberty, but they are present as early as the fourth month of intra-uterine life.
Note particularly the differences in the pubic arches: in the male pelvis it is really more of an angle than an arch.
The female pelvis is shallower and wider, less massive, the margins of the bones are more widely separated, thus giving greater prominence to the hips; the sacrum is shorter and less curved, and the pubic arch is wider and more rounded.
WEBER, effect of the shape of the mother's pelvis on her child's head.
ANGE, influence of the pelvis on the shape of the kidneys in birds.
Valentin injured the caudal extremity of an embryo, and three days afterwards it produced rudiments of a double pelvis and of double hind-limbs.
The reversion in type of the reproductive organs, the slender waist, the gracefully formed body, the rounded limbs, the long chest and the feminine pelvis strike one at the first glance.
Animals that have a narrow chest or pelvis interfere because the legs are placed too closely together.
Although the kidney worm is capable of causing inflammatory changes in the tissues surrounding the kidney and the pelvis of this organ, the disease cannot be determined by any noticeable symptom.
The kidney excretions are carried from the pelvis of the kidneys by the right and left ureters.
This is the most difficult part of the birth, as the bones that form the framework of the pelvis completely enclose the entrance to it.
It is usually found in the fat in the region of the pelvis of the kidney.
Before entering the pelvis it is necessary for the foetus to be forced through the inlet to this cavity.
It had, in fact, a kind of beak, and it also approached the primitive bird in the structure of its pelvis and in having five toes on its small front limbs.
Some forms even of the modern whale develop rudimentary teeth, and in all forms the bony structure of the fore limbs and degenerate relic of a pelvis and back limbs plainly tell of the terrestrial origin.
The projecting region of the lateral parts of one side of the pelvis and the hip joint; the haunch; the huckle.
An accumulation of urine in thepelvis of the kidney, occasioned by obstruction in the urinary passages.
The hip; the projecting region of the lateral parts of the pelvis and the hip joint; the hind part.
Babinski’s flexion of thigh on pelvis (spontaneous, upon suddenly throwing seated subject into dorsal decubitus).
After heavy shelling a soldier fell for two days into a clouded state from which he waked with complete paraplegia of the lower extremities, and total anesthesia from the pelvis downward (reflexes and electric excitability normal).
He could not walk and could hardly flex thighs on pelvis or legs on thighs.
Forced flexion of thighs on pelvis (as suggested by Denéchau and Matrais) also caused the swelling to go down.
These various organs are situated in the lower part of the abdomen, within the protection of the bony pelvis or basin.
This pelvis is, compared with the male pelvis, broad and shallow, to provide for the passage of the fully developed child at birth.
The front part of thepelvis is called the point of the hip (S).
The female pelvis contains the reproductive organs (uterus, vagina, and ovaries), and also the bladder and lower bowel.
The question comes whether the disease in the pelvis causes the difficulty with the stomach, or whether the stomach produces the inflammation in the uterus and surrounding parts.
I had falling of the womb and such an aching across my pelvis bone could hardly walk as the least jar hurt so.
The pelvis is the bony framework which forms the lower part of the body.
Of course all flesh is to be removed from the animal, precisely as with a mammal, and unless the skeleton is to be preserved, the shoulder girdles and pelvis may be cut out with the flesh and thrown away.
The pelvis is to be separated from the spinal column at the last lumbar vertebra; and if necessary the spinal column may be again dislocated about the middle.
They bear about as much resemblance to a genuine pelvis as a cigarette does to a locomotive.
The femur is articulated to the pelvis by a brass bolt.
Bend up each leg at a right angle to its present position, making the bend abruptly at the head of each femur, and thus leave between them the same distance that separated them when they joined the pelvis in life.
Bend the tail under the pelvis and tie it fast also.
The bones which form the skeleton of the pelvis of quadrupeds are proportionally more elongated and less massive than those of the human pelvis (Figs.
The indication of these origins is of importance from the point of view of external form, and to convince ourselves of this it is sufficient to compare, in the ox and the horse, the region of the pelvis situated below the root of the tail.
If, on the other hand, it takes its fixed point at the tibia, it makes the pelvis describe a see-saw movement, and acts accordingly in the movement of rearing.
Note: They had biconcave vertebræ, ambulatory limbs, and a well- developed pelvis and shoulder girdle.
Defn: A genus of gigantic herbivorous dinosaurs having a birdlike pelvis and large hind legs with three-toed feet capable of supporting the entire body.
Defn: An accumulation of urine in the pelvis of the kidney, occasioned by obstruction in the urinary passages.
Mr. Andrews, however, throws some doubt as to whether the pelvis and femora, referred to this species by Hutton, really belong to it.
The pelvis is wider and lower than in Dinornis, with the lower border of the postacetabular portion of the ilium descending as a sharp ridge much below the level of the sacral ribs, and without any distinct pectineal process.
Pelvis broader in proportion than in Dinornis, the acetabula set more forward.
The sternum resembles that of Anomalopteryx, but the pelvis is much wider and approaches that of Pachyornis.
The pelvis is narrow with a high ilium, in which the inferior border of the postacetabular portion is flat, and does not descend as a sharp ridge below the level of the anterior postacetabular vertebrae.
The humerus, the pelvis with sacrum, and the tibia were the materials on which our authors founded this new species.
Forbes says, "The limb-bones and pelvis correspond so closely to those of F.
The pelvis is much narrower than in Dinornis, with the ventral surface of the postacetabular sacrals ridged and narrower, and a more developed pectineal process to the pubis.
The pelvis approximates to that of the Apterygidae, but the pectineal process of the pubis is less developed, and the ischium and pubis may be longer and more slender.
The delay in finding the wounds due to the mistaken impression that they would be found in the pelvis materially prolonged the operation, which lasted an hour and a half.
Entry, at the junction of the middle and posterior thirds of the left iliac crest; the bullet passed obliquely downwards through the pelvis to lodge 3 inches below the right trochanter major.
Retained bullets sometimes give rise to unexpected surprises; thus in a man with a retained bullet in the pelvis no steps for its removal were taken.
As the cavity extended into the pelvis and up to the level of the costal margin, it was deemed wise only to evacuate a part of the blood-clot.
The bullet had passed out of the pelvisby the great sciatic notch.
Again, when the wounds crossed the false pelvis the patients sometimes escaped all injury to viscera.
With this slight difference, the position of the two vessels is precisely similar, each extending along the brim of the pelvis from the bifurcation of the aorta towards the sacro-iliac synchondrosis for about two inches.
Because the fascia of the pelvis (which when entire can resist infiltration) is prolonged forwards at the neck of the bladder, over the prostate (Fig.
So long as this sheath is not cut where it covers the sides of the prostate, urinary infiltration of the pelvis is impossible, the urine being carried forwards and fairly out of the pelvis in this urine-tight funnel.
The gluteal is the largest branch of the internal iliac, and leaves the pelvis by the great sacro-sciatic notch just at the upper edge of the pyriformis muscle.
In this the pelvis is to be so elevated that the centre of the bladder and space beneath it give plenty of room for seizing the stone, and all contact with the wall of the bladder is (as far as possible) avoided.
The bony cavity of the pelvis is much narrower in the Negro than in the European, but it is broader towards the os sacrum, which renders delivery easy to a Negress.
Accurate measurements show the upper portion of the pelvis to be a fourth wider in the European than in the Negro.
In fracture of the pelvis the bladder is often injured, and extraperitoneal infiltration of urine occurs, with frequently a fatal issue.
The pelvis is composed of four bones—2 Innominate or haunch-bones.
In the lower Monkeys and in the Lemurs the difference becomes more striking still, the pelvis acquiring an altogether quadrupedal character.
In these respects the pelvisof the Gorilla differs very considerably from his (Fig.
Front and side views of the bony pelvis of Man, the Gorilla and Gibbon: reduced from drawings made from nature, of the same absolute length, by Mr. Waterhouse Hawkins.
Calculi are usually formed in the pelvis of the kidney, and their formation is dependent either on the excessive amounts of uric acid, oxalic acid, &c.
Calculi formed in the pelvis of the kidney may be single and may reach a very large size, forming, indeed, an actual cast of the interior of the expanded kidney.
Anomalies of the excretory ducts: in some cases the ureter is double, in others it is greatly dilated; in others the pelvis of the kidney may be greatly dilated, with or without dilatation of the ureter.
A further point which is frequently mentioned in the case of women is the development of the chief secondary sexual regions: the pelvis and the breasts.
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