pelvis

English

A female pelvis.

A male pelvis.

Etymology

From Latin pelvis (“basin”), from Old Latin peluis (“basin”), from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“container”). Compare Sanskrit palavi (container), Greek πήληξ (pēlēx, “helmet”).

Noun

pelvis (plural pelvises or pelves)

1. (anatomy) The large compound bone structure at the base of the spine that supports the legs. It consists of hip bone, sacrum and coccyx.
2. (anatomy) A funnel-shaped cavity, especially such a cavity in the kidney into which urine passes towards the ureter

Related terms

• pelvic
• (cavity): hydropelvis, hydropelvic

Translations

bone

• Arabic: حوض (ar) (ḥawḍ) m

  Egyptian Arabic: حوض (ḥowḍ) m

• Belarusian: таз (be) (taz) m 
• Bulgarian: таз (bg) (taz) m 
• Catalan: pelvis (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 骨盆 (cmn) (gǔpén), 骨盤 (cmn), 骨盘 (cmn) (gǔpán), 腰帶 (cmn), 腰带 (cmn) (yāodài)

• Czech: pánev (cs) f
• Danish: bækken (da) n
• Dutch: bekken (nl) n
• Estonian: vaagnaluu (et), vaagen (et)
• Finnish: lantiorengas (fi)
• French: bassin (fr) m, pelvis (fr) m
• German: Becken (de) n
• Greek: λεκάνη (el) (lekáni) f 
• Icelandic: mjaðmargrind (is) f
• Japanese: 骨盤 (ja) (こつばん, kotsuban)
• Korean: 골반 (ko) (golban) (骨盤 (ko))

• Latin: pelvis (la) f
• Macedonian: карлица (mk) (kárlica) f
• Maori: papatoiake (mi)
• Norwegian: bekken (no)
• Polish: miednica (pl) f
• Portuguese: pelve (pt) f, bacia (pt) f, pélvis (pt) f
• Russian: таз (ru) (taz) m 
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: карлица (sh) f, зделица (sh) f, здјелица (sh) f

  Roman: karlica (sh) f, zdelica (sh) f, zdjelica (sh) f

• Slovak: panva (sk) f, panvica (sk) f
• Slovene: medenica (sl) f
• Spanish: pelvis (es) f
• Swedish: bäcken (sv) n
• Ukrainian: таз (uk) (taz) m 
• Vietnamese: khung chậu (vi)

See also

• Pelvis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• hip bone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:hip bone
• bone
• coccyx
• hip
• hipbone
• ilium
• innominate bone
• ischium
• os coxae
• pubis
• sacrum

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Catalan

Wikipedia ^ca

Etymology

From Latin pelvis.

Noun

pelvis f (plural pelvis)

1. pelvis

Derived terms

• pelvià

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Latin

Noun

pelvis (genitive pelvis); f, third declension

1. shallow bowl or basin

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	pelvis	pelvēs
genitive	pelvis	pelvium
dative	pelvī	pelvibus
accusative	pelvim pelvem	pelvīs pelvēs
ablative	pelvī pelve	pelvibus
vocative	pelvis	pelvēs

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Spanish

Wikipedia ^es

Etymology

From Latin pelvis.

Noun

pelvis f (plural pelvis)

1. pelvis

Related terms

• pelviano