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Definition of Pelves
1. pelvis [n] - See also: pelvis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pelves
Literary usage of Pelves
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Science and Art of Midwifery by William Thompson Lusk (1896)
"Influence of contracted pelves during pregnancy and labor. ... Is contracted
pelves sometimes a single diameter, sometimes all the principal diameters are ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1897)
"... in contracted pelves is the same as the death-rate of children born by
instrumental labor of mothers who have normal pelves. Hemorrhage and injury play ..."
3. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1874)
"The fatality in cases of contracted pelves generally he finds to be 6'6 per cent,
of mothers, and 28'7 per cent, of children. The mortality, on the other ..."
4. Obstetrics: a text-book for the use of students and practitioners by John Whitridge Williams (1904)
"Treatment of Labour complicated by Contracted pelves.—The treatment of labour
complicated by contracted pelves varies according to the degree of contraction ..."
5. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1889)
"His conclusions favour version as a mode of treatment, and are based upon the
following practical considerations :—The varieties of contracted pelves most ..."
6. Transactions of the International Medical Congress of Philadelphia. 1876 by John Ashhurst (1877)
"IN studying the mechanism of natural and of artificial labor in narrow pelves,
let us first inquire what is meant by a narrow pelvis, and what ¡ire its ..."
7. The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, Or, Quarterly Journal of (1860)
"... 11 funnel-shaped pelves, 5 irregularly contracted, two pelves with exostosis,
... pelves. 3. The Vienna Lying-in Institution is divided into three ..."
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