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

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.

When sitting, spasmodic pains in the lower portion of the abdomen extending into the rectum and coccyx.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock