Talk:Pelvic floor
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[edit] Merge?
This article may need to be merged with Perineum. --Una Smith (talk) 18:46, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
- I'd recommend not merging. The terms are related, but not synonymous. (Essentially, the pelvic floor is the superior border of the perineum, though it's a little more complex than that -- see deep perineal pouch.) --Arcadian (talk) 02:01, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Term specific to human anatomy?
I don't really know, but I guess it's so. In many other mammals, even in chimps, the pelvis has a different shape and it lacks a "floor-like" shape, as the posture isn't upright; it's somewhat like a pelvic "canopy". Many anatomy articles are somewhat "anthropocentric", they go describing the anatomy as such but sometimes fail to mention whether the specific human trait is being described or whether it's a broader description that applies to most of the organisms that have the organ. This article probably does not states that the term does not apply to non-human or non-upright primates, but has an illustration that makes clearer what I said about how it's likely to be a term more specific to primary (i.e. not-secondary, not "primitive", but "advanced") bipedal hominine anatomy. --Extremophile (talk) 04:44, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
