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 adult vertebral column consists of 24 vertebrae plus the sacrum and coccyx.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

Similarly, the coccyx, or tailbone, results from the fusion of four small coccygeal vertebrae.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

If typhoid symptoms attend, follow the above with placing P. P., medium force, on back of neck, close below the cranium, and N. P. at coccyx, two or three minutes.

From A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication by Clark, Daniel