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 spinal column is composed of the seven cervical vertebrae, the nine thoracic vertebra, the four lumbar vertebrae, the sacrum, and the coccyx.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

The bone immediately below the sacrum, called the coccyx, is essentially the representative of the tail in man.

From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Talbot, Eugene S.