pelvic girdle

Questions about pelvic girdle

What is another word for pelvic girdle?

It depends which pelvic girdle you mean. In the sense “the structure of the vertebrate skeleton supporting the lower limbs in humans and the hind limbs or corresponding parts in other vertebrates”, the synonyms are pelvis, pelvic arch, hip. Across all 1 sense there are 3 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of pelvic girdle?

WordNet records no antonym for pelvic girdle. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for pelvic girdle come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of pelvic girdle

• Full entry for pelvic girdleAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for pelvic girdleWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.