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Definition of Pubic

1. Adjective. Relating or near the pubis. "Pubic hair"

Definition of Pubic

1. a. Of or pertaining to the pubes; in the region of the pubes; as, the pubic bone; the pubic region, or the lower part of the hypogastric region. See Pubes.

Definition of Pubic

1. Adjective. Of, or relating to the area of the body adjacent to the pubis or the pubes. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pubic

1. pertaining to the pubes or pubis [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pubic

Literary usage of Pubic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"The pubic portion is situated at the inner side of the saphenous opening : at the lower margin of this aperture it is continuous with the iliac portion ..."

2. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"The Posterior pubic Ligament.—The posterior pubic ligament consists of a few thin, scattered fibres, which unite the two pubic bones posteriorly. ..."

3. Medical Lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science : Containing a Concise by Robley Dunglison (1868)
"It is more expanded in the female than in the male, to correspond with lili* additional functions which she nas to execute. pubic ..."

4. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1891)
"As to the change undergone by the pubic segment during labour, l)r Berry Hart, on the one hand, says in one1 of his latest papers that " the pubic segment ..."

5. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"... CLASSICAL IDEALS AND CUSTOMS, AND CHURCH CONFIRMATION L pubic initiation ... Kosas—Circumcision once a wide-spread pubic rite—Its value and meaning. II. ..."

6. Annual Record of Science and Industry for 1871-78 by Spencer Fullerton Baird (1879)
"The pubic Bones of Birds. It has been generally assumed by anatomists that the pubic bones are represented as a whole, in birds, by the elongated ..."

7. Cunningham's Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham, Arthur Robinson (1914)
"The anterior pubic ligament is strongly marked, and consists of two layers ... The posterior pubic ligament consists of a very few transverse fibres on the ..."

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