sacrum

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Lonely Island member Jorma Taccone shattered his pelvis and detached his sacrum after a recent fall from a 20-foot ladder at his farmhouse in Connecticut.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 4, 2025

Woods said his sacrum had to be put back in place.

From Seattle Times • May 15, 2024

She curls into a ball, pounding her fists against the floor, and later balances on her sacrum, torso gently circling, in a resemblance of yearning or prayer.

From New York Times • Dec. 11, 2022

Around the age of 70, the sacrum and the coccyx may fuse together.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

The ilium is very highly developed, and is fused in the median line with the ilium of the opposite side, the last dorsal vertebræ, the lumbar vertebræ, and the sacrum.

From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by Cuyer, ?douard