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1565 J. Hall Anat. 6th Pt. 90 in tr. Lanfranc Most Excellent Woorke Chirurg. The grinde or share is called Pubes, betwene the whyche are sette the priuye members, vnder the bothome of the bely.

1636 J. Sadler Sicke Womans Private Looking-glasse viii. 87 Cupping-glasses also fastened to the pubes and hypogastrium draw the humours to the wombe.

1702 Philos. Trans. 1700–1 (Royal Soc.) 22 1016 The blue Indigo in Cakes, rubb'd on the Pubes, helps those to Urine, who have a stoppage of Water.

?1768–9 Encycl. Brit. (1771) I. 275/2 The pubes is that broad eminence at the lower part of the hypogastrium, between the two inguina, on which hairs grow at a certain age.

1840 G. V. Ellis Demonstr. Anat. 484 The pyramidalis muscle is placed in the abdominal wall close above the pubes.

1893 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 22 42 The growth upon the pubes in both sexes is copious enough—some few Loweas object to even this, and either crop it or remove it altogether.

1949 H. Bailey Demonstr. Physical Signs Clin. Surg. (ed. 11) xiv. 150 The patient, stripped to the pubes, lies upon his back, with his feet pointing directly towards a window.

1983 Theory into Pract. 22 85/2 One of the earliest surviving statements about human growth is found in a Greek elegy by the poet, Solon, who noted the occurrence of puberty as the covering of the pubes with hair.

2002 Urology 59 628/1 He recognized avenues of bladder injury, puncture through the perineum, puncture above the pubes, and puncture from the rectum.

1569 W. Wager Longer thou Liuest sig. F.iii In adolencie when Pubes was springing.

1627 G. Hakewill Apologie iii. 161 The remarkeable pawses and chaunges of Nature euery seaventh yeare in the course of mans age, as the casting of the teeth in the first seaven, the springing of the pubes in the second, of the beard in the third, [etc.].

1695 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 19 80 She..had her Pubes grown thick and long, as also Hair under her Arm-pits.

1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. xxix. 58 In man and in most of the vertebrate animals there is a gradual action of the vital forces in different organs till they are fitted for reproduction; accompanied, as progress is made to the adult state, by the acquisition of certain organs, &c. as of teeth, pubes, feathers, &c.

1903 Lancet 7 Mar. 664/2 The original meaning of the term ‘pubes’ was the hairy covering and not the place upon which the hair grew.

1952 Amer. Heart Jrnl. 44 143 He had no pubes or axillary hair.

1637 T. Morton New Eng. Canaan i. vi. 29 After hee attaines unto the age, which they call Pubes.

1713 W. Cheselden Anat. Humane Body i. vi. 20 Between the Ischium and Pubes the Foramen.

1873 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 1871–2 12 29 On the ischium and pubes no osteophytes exists, save one small lamina on the body of the right pubes.

1917 Amer. Anthropologist 19 241 Bones found a little farther to the east which may or may not pertain to this individual include..a piece from the right pubes, a part of the left ilium, [etc.].