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the body's bowl of bone, quietly holding your guts and your whole upright posture together.
shape clueWide ones often signal female skeletons to forensics.
name originLatin for basin, because it cradles like one.
birth trickHormones loosen its joints to let babies pass.
load bearingTransfers your entire torso's weight to your legs.
fused bonesThree childhood bones merge into one adult hip.