os pubisn.
/ˌɒs ˈpjuːbɪs/, U.S. /ˌɑs ˈpjubəs/ Anatomy and Zoology.
The pubic bone; = pubis n. 1.
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shareeOE
os pectinisa1400
pecten?a1425
share-bone?c1425
os pubis1578
pubis1578
pubes1713
pubic bone1833
prepubis1888
1578 J. Banister Hist. Man i. f. 5v Synchondrosis, which is an union of the bones made by a Cartilage: as is sene in Os pubis.
1638 A. Read Man. Anat. Body of Man (new ed.) v. iv. 533 Os pubis or pectinis, the share bone; it is the fore and middle part.
1669 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 4 993 His Bladders containing the Castoreum..of which they found four great ones about the lower part of the os pubis, of which two were above the other two, but closely joined together.
1748 Philos. Trans. 1747 (Royal Soc.) 44 610 The lower Part of the Belly, where a distended Bladder would certainly point, was not swell'd, tho' the parts upon the Os Pubis were very much so.
1826 S. Cooper First Lines Pract. Surg. (ed. 5) ii. xxxvi. 463 The abdominal ring..,which is rather of a triangular shape, the os pubis forming the base of the triangle.
1896 Philos. Trans. 1895 (Royal Soc.) B. 186 115 The most interesting point of structure is the posterior constriction of the os pubis.
1985 M. F. Myles Textbk. Midwives (ed. 10) ii. 15 The innominate bone consists of three parts: the ilium, the ischium and Os pubis.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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