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 typically 3–4 vertebrae that fuse into one.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
The adult vertebral column comprises 26 bones: the 24 vertebrae, the sacrum, and the coccyx bones.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
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
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