pelve

plural pelves

1. anatomySynonym of pelvis.

   The pelve is wider, and so is its pelvic inlet bone.

   2018, Gloria H. Giroux, Crucifixion Thorn: Volume Two of the Arizona Trilogy, →ISBN

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   Calcium phosphate may form gravel and small calculi in the pelve of the kidney; the calculi are smooth and facetted, and of various de grees of hardness.

   1887, Ernst Ziegler, Sir Donald MacAlister, A Text-book of Pathological Anatomy and Pathogenesis

   The pregnancy had reached term. The fetal head was plunged in the pelve for a greater part; the back was found in the left part of the womans abdomen; heart-beats were not heard.

   1947, Gynaecologia - Volumes 123-124, page 59

   The pubis was often chopped off from the pelve at Wardell (Pl. 7e, f), a method which was rarely used at Glenrock. The reason is unclear, although it may have been done to break the connection between the pelves at the pubis symphysis.

   2003, Kathy Reichs, Bare Bones, →ISBN

   Synonyms: pelvis