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prepubic, præ-, a.|priːˈpjuːbɪk|
[f. next + -ic; in b, f. pre- B. 3 + pubic.]
a. Pertaining to the prepubis.
b. Situated in front of the pubis.
1871Huxley Anat. Vertebr. Anim. v. 270 A large spatulate bone..seems to be an exaggeration of the pre-pubic process. 1872Humphry Myology 13 It extends over the side of the abdomen to the middle line and the edge of the prepubic shield and cornu. 1918Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. XXXVIII. 521 In the ornithischian dinosaurs the expanded prepubic process appears to have served as a base for a forward extension of the pubi-ischio-femoralis. 1934Anatomischer Anzeiger LXXVIII. 44 The prepubic skeletal element [of Ascaphus truei] is cartilaginous. 1974D. & M. Webster Compar. Vertebr. Morphol. v. 102 In prototherian and metatherian (but not eutherian) mammals there is a fourth skeletal element on each side [of the pelvic girdle], called the marsupial or prepubic bone. |