Dictionary

ischium en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈɪskiəm/ (General-American)
• /ˈɪskɪəm/ (UK)

Etymology

17th century, from Latin ischium, from Ancient Greek ἰσχίον (iskhíon, “hip joint”).

Meanings

1. The lowest of the three bones that make up each side of the pelvis.
   • And he still carried, after five or six years, and though he dressed it in a mirror night and morning, on his right ischium a running sore of traumatic origin. 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:

Forms

Coordinates

ilium · pubis

Deriveds

ischiadic · ischial · ischiocrural · ischiatic

Relateds

bone

Translations (23)

ru седа́лищная кость (the lowest of three bones of the pelvis) · kmr hestiyê qûnê (the lowest of three bones of the pelvis) · ja 坐骨 (the lowest of three bones of the pelvis) · vo skiad (the lowest of three bones of the pelvis) · cmn 坐骨 (the lowest of three bones of the pelvis) · tr iskium kemiği (the lowest of three bones of the pelvis) · ca isqui (the lowest of three bones of the pelvis) · hu ülőcsont (the lowest of three bones of the pelvis) · tr oturga kemiği (the lowest of three bones of the pelvis) · fi istuinluu (the lowest of three bones of the pelvis) · pl kość kulszowa (the lowest of three bones of the pelvis) · fr ischium (the lowest of three bones of the pelvis) · nl zitbeen (the lowest of three bones of the pelvis) · sv sittben (the lowest of three bones of the pelvis) · it ischio (the lowest of three bones of the pelvis) · es isquion (the lowest of three bones of the pelvis) · fr ischion (the lowest of three bones of the pelvis) · hu ülőgumó (the lowest of three bones of the pelvis) · ca ísquium (the lowest of three bones of the pelvis) · sh sednjača (the lowest of three bones of the pelvis) · de Sitzbein (the lowest of three bones of the pelvis) · pt ísquio (the lowest of three bones of the pelvis) · de Ischium (the lowest of three bones of the pelvis)