Obstetrics : the science and the art . form, crasis, or function, and every deviation in place, and sobecome, as it were, incapable of making mistakes in diagnosis oraction; his ideal pelvis, and its apparatus, would for him be the norm,all that should agree with it being normal and all others abnormities. The word is derived from the Greek **$, which corresponds toour English word basin. The Latin word pelvis has become a part ofour technical, and indeed of our ordinary language, as it is of theFrench didactic language, according to Prof. Dubois. Its true inter-pretation is hips or hip-bon
Obstetrics : the science and the art . form, crasis, or function, and every deviation in place, and sobecome, as it were, incapable of making mistakes in diagnosis oraction; his ideal pelvis, and its apparatus, would for him be the norm,all that should agree with it being normal and all others abnormities. The word is derived from the Greek **$, which corresponds toour English word basin. The Latin word pelvis has become a part ofour technical, and indeed of our ordinary language, as it is of theFrench didactic language, according to Prof. Dubois. Its true inter-pretation is hips or hip-bones, or haunch or haunch-bones. We doDot usually employ, to express its idea, the English word basin, whilethe French mostly call it A bassin. Italians speak of it as il bar, .tin- basin; Germans denominate it das becJcen, the basin; Spaniards,hi pelvis^ lip basin; and Swedes call it bac7cenet, the basin; whence itappears that the idea of a pelvis has some connection with the idea ofa basin in all the above named languaj THE PELVIS. 39. The annexed figure (Fig. 1), which represents a well-formed femalepelvis, drawn in out-line, exhibits this re- Hg« *?semblance to a basin,though faintly, and thefainter, indeed, becausethe whole upper edgeor front side of the bowlseems to be brokenaway, both above thefront or pubic bone,and below it at whatis called the arch of thepubis. The great uppervacuity is seen in the drawing between the two angular points, one on the right and theother on the left side of the drawing—projections that are known asthe anterior-superior spinous processes of the ossa ilia. Beneath thefront bone, or pubis, as it is called, there is another great vacuity,shaped like an arch, which is called arch of the pubis; and, indeed,the whole bottom of the bowl or basin is wanting in the dried speci-men. Not so, however, in the recent subject. But, while the whole profession everywhere agree to regard thisorgan as ittxvs, pelvis, bacino, backenet, bassin, becken, basin,
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