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

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ischium (plural ischia)

  1. (anatomy) The lowest of the three bones that make up each side of the pelvis. [from 17th c.]
    • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:
      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.

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Noun

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ischium n (genitive ischiī or ischī); second declension

  1. Alternative form of ischion

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Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative ischium ischia
Genitive ischiī
ischī1
ischiōrum
Dative ischiō ischiīs
Accusative ischium ischia
Ablative ischiō ischiīs
Vocative ischium ischia

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).