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 coccyx is attached to the inferior end of the sacrum.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

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

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

Place N. P., long cord, at coccyx, and treat with P. P. over abdomen, five to ten minutes, and repeat, if necessary, in thirty to sixty minutes.

From A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication by Clark, Daniel