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Iliac adj.

(Anat.) Pertaining to, or in the region of, the ilium, or dorsal bone of the pelvis; as, the iliac artery. (Written also ileac)

See Ileac, 1. (R.)

Iliac crest, the upper margin of the ilium.

Iliac passion. See Ileus.

Iliac region, a region of the abdomen, on either side of the hypogastric regions, and below the lumbar regions.

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Etymology of 'Iliac'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... kingdom, where he gained universal love and veneration, by a most affable and courteous behaviour to all men. A few months after his return he went to Dover, to have an interview with the Earl of Flanders;[43] where, after a short sickness, he died of the iliac passion, together with his old distemper the hemorrhoids, upon the twenty-fifth day of October, in the forty-ninth year of his age, and the nineteenth ...

— The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, Vol. X. • Jonathan Swift

... woman who (as is usual with tribades in India) wore male attire, and was well known for her sexual proclivities. An examination revealed the following: Face much lined, mammae of masculine type, but nipples elongated and readily erectile; gluteal and iliac regions quite of masculine type, as also the thighs; clitoris, with enlarged glands, readily erectile; nymphae thickened and enlarged; vulvar orifice patent, for she had in early youth been a prostitute; the voice was almost contralto. ...

— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis

Words linked to "Iliac" : circumflex iliac artery, internal iliac vein, circumflex iliac vein, iliac artery, internal iliac artery, general anatomy, iliac vein, anatomy, ilium, common iliac artery, external iliac vein, external iliac artery, common iliac vein