Excerpt from A Hand-Book of Obstetrics: With Forty-One Illustrations; Being a Portion of an Analytical Compendium of the Various Branches of Medicine When divested of its soft structures, this organ somewhat resem bles a basin, and hence its name; for the Greeks called it mg, a wooden utensil of bowl-form; the Latins from them derived the word pelvis, which is the term generally adopted by English and American writers. The French call it is bassin, the Italians el bacino, - all which words have the same signification. In the adult, the pelvis consists Of four parts, viz. Two ossa inno minata, the os sacrum, and the os coccygis, but in early life they are more minutely divisible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.