pelvic inlet

The pelvic inlet of a female is also wider because the child's head must pass through it.

It forms part of the border of the pelvic inlet.

Also called the "cardinal points of the pelvic inlet".

The transverse diameter of the pelvic inlet measures 13.5 cm.

The pelvic brim is the edge of the pelvic inlet.

Its oblique roof is the pelvic inlet (the superior opening of the pelvis).

Human abdomen to the pelvic brim or to the pelvic inlet.

There was now bilaterial hydroneophrosis with obstruction at the pelvic inlet (Figs 1 and 2).

Occasionally, the terms pelvic inlet and pelvic brim are used interchangeably.

Others define the pelvic cavity as the larger space including the greater pelvis, just above the pelvic inlet.

Pelvis and Perineum - the pelvis consists of everything from the pelvic inlet to the pelvic diaphragm.

The diameters or conjugates of the pelvis are measured at the pelvic inlet and outlet and as oblique diameters.

However, Caldwell and Moloy then complicated this simple four fold scheme by dividing the pelvic inlet into posterior and anterior segments.

The most inferior extent of the peritoneum covers the pelvic inlet; in females, this region of the peritoneum is referred to as the 'broad ligament'.

Presentation: Relationship between the leading fetal part and the pelvic inlet: cephalic, breech (complete, incomplete, frank or footling), face, brow, mentum or shoulder presentation.

He kept humming "Dem Dry Bones" faintly to himself as he measured the pelvic inlet, then went back to the legs, this time concentrating on the tibia.

Cardinal points of Capuron: Term associated with four fixed points in the pelvic inlet; the two iliopubic eminences anteriorly, and the two sacroiliac joints posteriorly.

The pelvic inlet is typically used to divide the abdominopelvic cavity into an abdominal (above the inlet) and a pelvic cavity (below the inlet).

At the beginning of the normal second stage, the head is fully engaged in the pelvis; the widest diameter of the head has passed below the level of the pelvic inlet.

The pelvis can be classified into four main types by measuring the pelvic diameters and conjugates at the pelvic inlet and outlet and as oblique diameters.

The pelvic brim stretches from the lumbosacral angle (the intervertebral disk between L5 and S1) to the pubic symphysis and is the edge of the pelvic inlet.

The lesser pelvis (or "true pelvis") is the space enclosed by the pelvic girdle and below the pelvic brim: between the pelvic inlet and the pelvic floor.

Its dome-shaped roof is the thoracic diaphragm (a thin sheet of muscle under the lungs), and its oblique floor is the pelvic inlet (the superior opening of the pelvis).

Pelvic inlet: The line between the narrowest bony points formed by the sacral promontory and the inner pubic arch is termed obstetrical conjugate: It should be 11.5 cm or more.

In obstetrics, the presentation of a fetus about to be born refers to which anatomical part of the fetus is leading, that is, is closest to the pelvic inlet of the birth canal.