pelvic girdle

Questions about pelvic girdle

What does pelvic girdle mean?

pelvic girdle means "the structure of the vertebrate skeleton supporting the lower limbs in humans and the hind limbs or corresponding parts in other vertebrates".

What is another word for pelvic girdle?

Close synonyms include pelvis, pelvic arch, hip. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pelvic girdle a common word?

pelvic girdle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.