variants
or less commonly ilial
: of, relating to, or located on or near the ilium
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Doctors would need to insert two needles into her pelvis — her iliac crest bone — and pull as much bone marrow liquid as needed since Vida's would safely regenerate.
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Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 27 Jan. 2025
Fit starts with torso length, which is typically measured from your C7 vertebra at the base of your neck to the iliac crest at your hips.
—Wes Siler, Outside Online, 14 Aug. 2024
In a wooden box on a shelf, Surak keeps a gumball-size chunk of the iliac bone of Jean-Baptiste de La Salle himself, a seventeenth-century French priest and educator.
—Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
Per the autopsy, Garrison's blood alcohol level was .307% based on his iliac blood analysis and .370% based on his vitreous analysis.
—Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 15 May 2024
My partner is 71 and was diagnosed with heart failure one year ago, but one month later, he was diagnosed with an iliac arteriovenous malformation (AVM).
—Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 3 July 2023
Walker had injuries to his face, heart, both lungs, liver, spleen, left kidney, intestines, pelvis, iliac artery and several bones in his legs, according to the medical examiner.
—Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 10 Apr. 2023
Size Backpacks are sized according to torso length (as measured from your bony C7 vertebrae at the base of your neck to your iliac crest at the top of your hip bone) and hip belt width.
—Ryan Wichelns, Popular Mechanics, 2 Mar. 2023
The giving process involves taking bone marrow from the iliac crest of the hipbone while the donor is under anesthesia or collecting peripheral blood stem cells in a process similar to donating blood platelets.
—Brooke Henderson, miamiherald, 2 June 2017
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Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 27 Jan. 2025
Fit starts with torso length, which is typically measured from your C7 vertebra at the base of your neck to the iliac crest at your hips.
—Wes Siler, Outside Online, 14 Aug. 2024
In a wooden box on a shelf, Surak keeps a gumball-size chunk of the iliac bone of Jean-Baptiste de La Salle himself, a seventeenth-century French priest and educator.
—Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
Per the autopsy, Garrison's blood alcohol level was .307% based on his iliac blood analysis and .370% based on his vitreous analysis.
—Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 15 May 2024
My partner is 71 and was diagnosed with heart failure one year ago, but one month later, he was diagnosed with an iliac arteriovenous malformation (AVM).
—Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 3 July 2023
Walker had injuries to his face, heart, both lungs, liver, spleen, left kidney, intestines, pelvis, iliac artery and several bones in his legs, according to the medical examiner.
—Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 10 Apr. 2023
Size Backpacks are sized according to torso length (as measured from your bony C7 vertebrae at the base of your neck to your iliac crest at the top of your hip bone) and hip belt width.
—Ryan Wichelns, Popular Mechanics, 2 Mar. 2023
The giving process involves taking bone marrow from the iliac crest of the hipbone while the donor is under anesthesia or collecting peripheral blood stem cells in a process similar to donating blood platelets.
—Brooke Henderson, miamiherald, 2 June 2017
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“Iliac.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/iliac. Accessed 28 Feb. 2025.
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iliac
adjective
il·i·ac
ˈil-ē-ˌak 
: of, relating to, or located on or near the ilium
an iliac spine
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