{"id":8706,"date":"2019-05-22T16:10:38","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/pelvis-pelvic_girdle\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:10:38","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:10:38","slug":"pelvis-pelvic_girdle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/pelvis-pelvic_girdle\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelvis\/pelvic girdle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The birth canal, formed by the ischium, ilium, and pubic bones (see figure for human pelvic girdle). &nbsp;During hominin evolution, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC4305164\/\" data-editable-link=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC4305164\/?target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">anatomy of the pelvis<\/a>&nbsp;has undergone major changes in order to accommodate the mechanical requirements for upright locomotion and childbirth. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Pelvic-girdle.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Human pelvic girdle and the birth canal. Acetabulum forms a socket into which the head of the femur bone fits.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"diarthrodial_joints\">Diarthrodial joints<\/a>, Delivery position (presentation), <a href=\"locomotion\">Locomotion<\/a>, <a href=\"sexually_dimorphic\">Sexually dimorphic<\/a>, Vertex presentations<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The birth canal, formed by the ischium, ilium, and pubic bones (see figure for human pelvic girdle). &nbsp;During hominin evolution, the&nbsp;anatomy of the pelvis&nbsp;has undergone major changes in order to accommodate the mechanical requirements for upright locomotion and childbirth. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Human pelvic girdle and the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/pelvis-pelvic_girdle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pelvis\/pelvic girdle&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}