sacrum

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Lonely Island member Jorma Taccone shattered his pelvis and detached his sacrum after a recent fall from a 20-foot ladder at his farmhouse in Connecticut.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 4, 2025

Woods said his sacrum had to be put back in place.

From Seattle Times • May 15, 2024

She curls into a ball, pounding her fists against the floor, and later balances on her sacrum, torso gently circling, in a resemblance of yearning or prayer.

From New York Times • Dec. 11, 2022

The sacrum is derived from the fusion of five sacral vertebrae and the coccyx is formed by the fusion of four small coccygeal vertebrae.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

There are, so to speak, no lumbar vertebræ, the bones of that region, which cannot be differentiated from the sacrum, having coalesced with the bones of the pelvis.

From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by Cuyer, ?douard