girdle : Idioms & Phrases

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Girdle bone

  • (Anat.), the sphenethmoid. See under Sphenethmoid.
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Girdle wheel

  • a spinning wheel.
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Hip girdle

  • (Anat.), the pelvic girdle.
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limb-girdle muscular dystrophy

  • noun an autosomal recessive form of muscular dystrophy that appears anywhere from late childhood to middle age; characterized by progressive muscular weakness beginning either in the shoulder or pelvic girdle; usually progresses slowly with cardiopulmonary complications in the later stages
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panty girdle

  • noun a woman's undergarment that combines a girdle and panties
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Pectoral arch, ∨ Pectoral girdle

  • (Anat.), the two or more bony or cartilaginous pieces of the vertebrate skeleton to which the fore limbs are articulated; the shoulder girdle. In man it consists of two bones, the scapula and clavicle, on each side.
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pectoral girdle

  • noun a skeletal support to which the forelimbs of vertebrates are attached
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Pelvic arch, ∨ Pelvic girdle

  • (Anat.), the two or more bony or cartilaginous pieces of the vertebrate skeleton to which the hind limbs are articulated. When fully ossified, the arch usually consists of three principal bones on each side, the ilium, ischium, and pubis, which are often closely united in the adult, forming the innominate bone. See Innominate bone, under Innominate.
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pelvic girdle

  • noun the structure of the vertebrate skeleton supporting the lower limbs in humans and the hind limbs or corresponding parts in other vertebrates
    hip; pelvis; pelvic arch.
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Sea girdle

  • (Zoöl.), a ctenophore. See Venus's girdle, under Venus.
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sea girdles

Sea" gir"dles
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  1. (Bot.) A kind of kelp (Laminaria digitata) with palmately cleft fronds; -- called also sea wand, seaware, and tangle.
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Shoulder, Pectoral, ∧ Pelvic, girdle

  • . (Anat.) See under Pectoral, and Pelvic.
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Shoulder girdle

  • noun the bony arch formed by the collarbones and shoulder blades in humans
    pectoral arch.
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  • . (Anat.) See Pectoral girdle, under Pectoral.
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To have under the girdle

  • to have bound to one, that is, in subjection.
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Venus's girdle

  • noun ctenophore having a ribbon-shaped iridescent gelatinous body
    Cestum veneris.
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  • (Zoöl.), a long, flat, ribbonlike, very delicate, transparent and iridescent ctenophore (Cestum Veneris) which swims in the open sea. Its form is due to the enormous development of two spheromeres. See Illust. in Appendix.
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