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 sacrum is derived from the fusion of five sacral vertebrae and the coccyx is formed by the fusion of four small coccygeal vertebrae.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

This large opening is defined by the inferior margin of the pubic symphysis anteriorly, and the ischiopubic ramus, the ischial tuberosity, the sacrotuberous ligament, and the inferior tip of the coccyx posteriorly.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

In animals the sacrum and the coccyx, as a matter of fact, clearly continue the superior border of the skeleton of the trunk; hence we study them with the vertebral column.

From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by Cuyer, ?douard