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ischia

ischia is the plural of ischium.

Meaning of ischium

Noun

ischium (plural ischia)

  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

Proper noun capitalized: Ischia

Ischia

  1. An island and volcano in the Bay of Naples, west of Naples in the Tyrrhenian Sea.
  2. A town and comune on the island of Ischia in the Metropolitan City of Naples, Campania, Italy.
  3. A town and comune of Lazio, Italy; in full, Ischia di Castro.

Words formed from ischia

Questions about ischia

What does ischia mean?
Ischia means an island and volcano in the Bay of Naples, west of Naples in the Tyrrhenian Sea.
What is ischia the plural of?
Ischia is the plural of ischium.
What part of speech is ischia?
Ischia is a proper noun.

Words near ischia in the dictionary

  1. ischemic
  2. ischemic bone necrosis
  3. ischemically
  4. ischemicity
  5. Isches
  6. ischia
  7. ischiac
  8. ischiadic
  9. ischiadic passion
  10. ischiadicus
  11. ischiagra

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ischia (page history and authors); Ischia (page history and authors); ischium (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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