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
Similarly, the coccyx, or tailbone, results from the fusion of four small coccygeal vertebrae.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
At a certain stage of human development, as in the tadpole, the tail disappears, the nine vertebræ forming the coccyx unite together and become a very diminutive bone which loses nearly all vertebral characteristics.
From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Talbot, Eugene S.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
