coccyx
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The boy was fifteen, skinny, almost malnourished, so that the hip bones and coccyx stood out sharply.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2025
Following this evolutionary split, the group of apes that includes present-day humans evolved the formation of fewer tail vertebrae, giving rise to the coccyx, or tailbone.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 28, 2024
Around the age of 70, the sacrum and the coccyx may fuse together.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
The right and left hip bones, plus the sacrum and the coccyx, together form the pelvis.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
At its inferior, or lower angle, it is united to the coccyx.
From A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) by Calvin Cutter
The twins are joined only by the latero-posterior aspects of the sacra and coccyges, so that the two individuals are placed almost back to back.
From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by Austin ?Malley
They are joined at the coccyges and sacra, and the spinal columns have nearly the same axis.
From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by Austin ?Malley
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