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

The adult vertebral column comprises 26 bones: the 24 vertebrae, the sacrum, and the coccyx bones.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

The coccyx is small and derived from the fusion of four small vertebrae.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

For instance, the heart at first exists as a simple pulsating vessel; the excreta are voided through a cloacal passage; and the os coccyx projects like a true tail, “extending considerably beyond the rudimentary legs.”

From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I by Darwin, Charles