pelvic floor
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.36 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A muscular partition, formed by the muscle fibers of the levator ani, the coccygeus, and associated connective tissue, which spans the area underneath the pelvis.
Example Sentences
- "1994, T. Sayer, T. Smith, 2.9 Pelvic Floor Biopsy, Bernhard Schüssler, Jo Laycock, Peggy A. Norton, Stuart L. Stanton (editors), Pelvic Floor Re-Education, Springer, page 99, Single-fibre electromyography (SFEMG) and pudendal nerve terminal motor latency (PNTML) recordings were done in control women and women with genitourinary prolapse or stress incontinence who also had a pelvic floor muscle biopsy."
- "Pelvic floor ultrasound is often described as a niche investigation within obstetrics and gynecology and even within gynecological ultrasound."
- "High-resolution three-dimensional endovaginal ultrasonography (EVUS) provides a detailed evaluation of the pelvic floor muscles and the levator ani complex, the lower urinary tract, and the anorectal region in planes that cannot be determined by conventional two-dimensional EVUS."