pubis

noun

pu·bis ˈpyü-bəs

plural pubes ˈpyü-(ˌ)bēz

: the ventral and anterior of the three principal bones composing either half of the pelvis

called also pubic bone

Examples of pubis in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Then, at 11 weeks, a debilitating pregnancy condition called symphysis pubis dysfunction derailed me. —

Women's Health, 31 July 2023 That means the same pubes that started to grow will shed in about a month to a month and a half. —

Garrett Munce, Men's Health, 24 July 2023 Going forward, restorers plan to make fresh casts out of resin to replace the plaster patches that covered missing pieces, including on part of the nape of the neck and the pubis. —

Francesco Sportelli, BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2023 After all, paying a complete stranger to rip off your pubes—with hot wax at that!— is way more intimidating than deciding to get bangs. —

Maddy Zollo Rusbosin, Women's Health, 28 Feb. 2023 Swinging the pubis backwards is the Darwinian equivalent of loosening your belt at Thanksgiving dinner. —

Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2016 The animal — which, by the way, is known from several specimens — had a pelvic girdle with rear-pointing pubis and ischium, like the ornithischians. —

Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 16 Aug. 2017 The slowness with which the tip of the index finger glides over the skin of the belly, the embowed branches covering the pubis, the lips’ edge. —

Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 4 July 2022 Ina’s pubis was covered in thin white hairs as soft as fine grass. —

Ottessa Moshfegh, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022 See More

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Word History

Etymology

New Latin os pubis, literally, bone of the pubic region

First Known Use

1578, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler

The first known use of pubis was in 1578

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Kids Definition

pubis

noun

pu·bis ˈpyü-bəs

plural pubes -bēz

: the front and lower of the three principal bones composing each half of the pelvis

Medical Definition

pubis

noun

pu·bis ˈpyü-bəs

plural pubes -(ˌ)bēz

: the ventral and anterior of the three principal bones composing either half of the pelvis that in humans consists of two rami diverging posteriorly from the region of the pubic symphysis with the superior ramus extending to the acetabulum of which it forms a part and uniting there with the ilium and ischium and the inferior ramus extending below the obturator foramen where it unites with the ischium

called also pubic bone