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

In the adult, the sacrum is typically composed of five vertebrae that fuse into one.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

In the horse, it extends still further, for it is also attached to the crest of the sacrum.

From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by Cuyer, ?douard