单词 | brim of the pelvis |
释义 | > as lemmasbrim of the pelvis a. Now esp. The edge, margin, or ‘lip’ of a cup, bowl, basin, or anything of similar shape artificial or natural. (Formerly often plural) spec. brim of the pelvis or pelvic brim: the part of the pelvis that forms the boundary of the superior pelvic aperture and separates the false or greater pelvis above from the true or lesser pelvis below; also, the aperture itself. Also elliptical. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > [noun] > of an opening or cavity edgea1450 brim1546 lip1726 the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > bony support for limbs > pelvis > [noun] > brim of brim of the pelvis1762 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. v. sig. H Better spare at brym than at bottom. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Lii/1 Ye Brim of a cup, labrum. 1577 R. Stanyhurst Hist. Irelande iii. 95/1 in R. Holinshed Chron. I Vnder ye brimme of hys scull. 1611 Bible (King James) 2 Chron. iv. 2 He made a molten Sea of ten cubites, from brim to brim. View more context for this quotation a1695 A. Wood Life (1848) 260 A vessel or a bason notched at the brimms. 1719 J. Chamberlayne tr. B. Nieuwentyt Relig. Philosopher II. xvii. xl. 409 They will..see it..run over the Brims of the Glass like Bottled Beer. 1762 W. Smellie Treat. Midwifery (ed. 4) I. 81 The brim of the Pelvis is wider from side to side than from the back to the fore-part. 1810 Encycl. Londinensis I. 646/2 From the brim of the pelvis upwards. 1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. xx. 341 On arriving at the brim of the Crater,..we were agreeably surprised. 1885 R. Barnes & F. Barnes Syst. Obstetr. Med. II. xiii. 627 The filling up of the brim, and even of a part of the pelvic cavity sometimes, by the breech. 1957 D. Sinclair Introd. Functional Anat. xxi. 275 This basin is very incomplete, and ends centrally in a fairly abrupt rim of bone called the pelvic brim. < as lemmas |
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