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What (who) is ilium - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Ilium (disambiguation); Illium
ilium
['?l??m]
¦ noun (plural ilia) the large broad bone forming the upper part of each half of the pelvis.
Origin
ME (orig. denoting the ileum): from L., singular of ilia 'flanks, entrails'.
Ilium
·noun The dorsal one of the three principal bones comprising either lateral half of the pelvis; the dorsal or upper part of the hip bone. ·see Innominate bone, under Innominate.
Ilium (Kurt Vonnegut)
FICTIONAL NEW YORK TOWN IN MANY OF KURT VONNEGUT'S NOVELS
Ilium, New York
Ilium is a fictional town in eastern New York state, used as a setting for many of Kurt Vonnegut's novels and stories, including Player Piano, Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five, and the stories "Deer in the Works", "Poor Little Rich Town", and "Ed Luby's Key Club". The town is dominated by its major industry leader, the Ilium Works, which produces scientific marvels to assist, or possibly harm, human life.
Examples of use of ilium
1. RHYMING TWANG In Troilus and Cressida, Achilles kills Hector and says÷ So Ilium fall thou; now Troy sink down, Here lies thy heart, thy sinews, and thy bone.