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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Measurement of the dimensions and capacity of the pelvis, especially of the adult female pelvis.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The method or practice of measuring the pelvis; measurement of the pelvis, especially for obstetrical purposes.
  • noun In zoology, the determination of the form of the pelvis by means of measurement.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Med.) The measurement of the pelvis.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The assessment of the female pelvis in relation to the birth of a baby.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun measurement of the dimensions of the bony birth canal (to determine whether vaginal birth is possible)

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[pelvis + –metry.]

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