Word: pelvic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...library work, she's not comfortable with all aspects of reproductive biology," says John Rasweiler, associate professor of reproductive biology at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. "When you focus on some of her errors, many things seem to fall apart." Errors? "Every gynecologist knows the incidence of pelvic infections increases, not decreases, after the menstrual period," contends Dr. Charles Debrovner, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at New York University School of Medicine. "In fact, menstruation makes women more susceptible. Menstrual blood itself may even act as a vehicle for transporting infection." Counters Profet: "Saying uterine bleeding causes infections...
...relics are more often discovered by the likes of Stan Sacrison, 37, a plumber and electrician who likes to wander around sheep ranches near his home in Buffalo, South Dakota, looking for prehistoric bones. Last May, while scrambling up the side of a butte, he noticed an unusually large pelvic bone and three sun-bleached vertebrae poking out of the siltstone. "I could tell right away it was a Tyrannosaurus rex, because they're really distinctive," he says. "I was pretty excited...
...oldest dinosaur fossils ever found. The animal, now known as Eoraptor, was a carnivore that dates from 230 million years ago. Like the much later Tyrannosaurus, the Eoraptor belonged to the saurischian, or lizard-hipped, category of dinosaurs. (The name refers to the arrangement of its pelvic bones; the other category of dinosaurs, which includes Stegosaurus and other herbivores, is labeled ornithischian, or bird-hipped. Ironically, birds are descended from the lizard-hipped class...
...ballroom dancing isn't all fun, games and sexy pelvic thrusts. It can be a dangerous enterprise as well...
...slender, unmarried women as candidates for gallbladder disease." Prejudiced and mistaken notions also can govern the treatment offered to black women, lesbians and those with a history of venereal disease. For example, says Smith, a doctor quickly diagnosed in a young, married black woman chronic pelvic inflammatory disease -- an ailment that results from previous venereal infection -- though nothing in her history supported such a judgment. Actually, her symptoms and history perfectly matched a diagnosis of endometriosis, a different condition...