单词 | pubis |
释义 | pubisn. 1. Anatomy and Zoology. The anterior and inferior bone of each side of the pelvis, consisting of a body (which is united to the corresponding part of the opposite side at the symphysis pubis) and two rami, inferior and superior, which form part of the obturator foramen and acetabulum respectively. Also pubis bone, †bone pubis.In adult humans the pubis is fused with the ilium and ischium to form the hip (or innominate) bone. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > bony support for limbs > pelvis > [noun] > hip bone > innominate bone > pubis shareeOE os pectinisa1400 pecten?a1425 share-bone?c1425 os pubis1578 pubis1578 pubes1713 pubic bone1833 prepubis1888 1578 J. Banister Hist. Man i. f. 4v The bones of the brest, and Pubis, the Vertebres themselues. 1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 32 b/2 We..place the Boxes, one the bone Pubis [Du. op het ys been; Fr. sur le penil] in the flanckes. 1732 V. Brest Analyt. Inquiry Specifick Property of Mercury 20 A Gentleman..was troubled with several hard sores in his Groins, and particularly on the Bone Pubis. 1768 Smellie's Treat. Midwifery (ed. 4) II. 6 I..was called to three women, in whom the Pelvis was so narrow, that the distance between the lower Vertebra and the Pubis, did not exceed two inches and an half. 1841 F. H. Ramsbotham Princ. & Pract. Obstetr. Med. 29 In the female..the rami of the ischia and pubes are smoother on their inner surface. 1873 St. G. Mivart Lessons Elem. Anat. v. 190 In Reptiles we find a pair of separate bones, usually called the pubes. 1915 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 35 247 The horizontal plane containing..the pubic crest (the upper edge of the pubis bone). 1958 W. E. Swinton Fossil Amphibians & Reptiles (ed. 2) ii. 7 The hip girdle consists essentially of three bones: an upper bone or ilium, an anterior and downwardly pointing pubis and a posterior and downwardly pointing ischium on each side. 1997 P. Cornwell Unnatural Exposure iii. 53 The faces of the pubic symphysis, or the surfaces where one pubis joins the other, were no longer rugged and ridged, as in youth. 2000 Jrnl. Urol. 164 969 The rectus abdominis muscle was surgically dissected with preservation of its insertion on the pubis bone. 2. = pubes n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > front > pubes > [noun] pubes1565 pubis1585 penil1719 1585 J. Banister Wecker's Compend. Chyrurg. xxxiv. 209 Shaue awaye the hayre (if there be any) from scrotum, & pubis [L. Derasa pube & scroto], and lay the patient vpright on a fourme. 1684 S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Of Feavers in Pract. Physick (rev. ed.) 133 A Fomentation of the Hysterical Decoction, is to be applied about the Pubis. 1700 J. Jones Mysteries Opium Reveal'd (1701) xli. 368 Some of the Ancients applied it to the Perinæum, Kidneys, Region of the Pubis, &c., to chill Venus by the cold Quality they attributed to it. ?1790 J. M. Adair Unanswerable Arguments against Abolition Slave Trade xviii. 321 (note) If no indurated fæces come away, cold water ought to be dashed on the pubis and hams. 1835 A. Smith Diary 1 Jan. (1939) I. 197 One..rubbed it over her thighs and upon the insides thereof close to the pubis. 1899 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 5 215 The young man grows rapidly in stature; the pubis is covered with hair as in the period of puberty. 1925 L. E. H. Whitby Nurses' Handbk. Hygiene v. 94 Pediculus pubis, the crab louse, lives in the neighbourhood of the pubis and in the anal region. 1980 R. Collins Case of Philosophers' Ring xx. 149 He draws the body nude, with the pubis rendered in minute detail. 1995 Guardian 22 Apr. (Weekend Suppl.) 40/3 This garment simply consisted of one fine vinyl strap that barely covered the pubis. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1578 |
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