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pelvis
 
Noun pelvis has 2 senses
  1. pelvis, pelvic girdle, pelvic arch, hip - the structure of the vertebrate skeleton supporting the lower limbs in humans and the hind limbs or corresponding parts in other vertebrates
    --1 is a kind of girdle
    --1 is a part of appendicular skeleton
    --1 has parts:
     coccyx, tail bone; hipbone, innominate bone; ilium; ischium, ischial bone, os ischii; pubis, pubic bone, os pubis; sacrum; hip, hip joint, coxa, articulatio coxae
  2. pelvis, renal pelvis - a structure shaped like a funnel in the outlet of the kidney into which urine is discharged before passing into the ureter
    --2 is a kind of cavity, bodily cavity, cavum
    --2 is a part of kidney
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