sacrum
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Deputies with the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office identified it as a human sacrum, the triangular bone at the base of the spine, and submitted it to a state Department of Justice system of DNA samples.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
The study, published in Analytical Chemistry, examined an exceptionally well preserved Edmontosaurus sacrum weighing 22 kilograms.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
The concept of a Christian “holy war”—a war conferring spiritual benefits—originates in medieval Latin Christianity, with its crusader theology of bellum sacrum.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
Woods said his sacrum had to be put back in place.
From Seattle Times ● May 15, 2024
The coccyx bears a distinct dorsal ridge and has a bicondylar articulation with the sacrum.
From A Synopsis of Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Osteocephalus by William E. Duellman
Most of the Boswellia sacra trees grow on public land, but custom dictates that each forest is given to one of the local families to farm, and Wadi Dawkah is his turf.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2010
Warm winters and showery summers are the perfect conditions for the Boswellia sacra tree to produce the sap called frankincense.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2010
With a practised flick, he cuts a strip of bark from the trunk of one of the Boswellia sacra trees.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2010
In front of Triopium is the small island of Telos, whence a single family joined the Lindian colony that founded Gela in Sicily, and earned with it the sacra Triopia.
From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 by Karl Otfried Müller
"Auri sacra fames ..." he called out once more into the night.
From Ekkehard. Vol. I (of II) A Tale of the Tenth Century by Joseph Victor von Scheffel
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Human Anatomy and Physiology - High School
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