sacrum
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Deputies with the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office identified it as a human sacrum, the triangular bone at the base of the spine, and submitted it to a state Department of Justice system of DNA samples.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
The study, published in Analytical Chemistry, examined an exceptionally well preserved Edmontosaurus sacrum weighing 22 kilograms.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
The concept of a Christian “holy war”—a war conferring spiritual benefits—originates in medieval Latin Christianity, with its crusader theology of bellum sacrum.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
Woods said his sacrum had to be put back in place.
From Seattle Times ● May 15, 2024
The great difference between the sacrum of a Pterodactyle and that of a bird has been rendered intelligible by the excellent discussion of the sacral region in birds made by Professor Huxley.
From Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by H. G. Seeley
With a practised flick, he cuts a strip of bark from the trunk of one of the Boswellia sacra trees.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2010
Warm winters and showery summers are the perfect conditions for the Boswellia sacra tree to produce the sap called frankincense.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2010
Most of the Boswellia sacra trees grow on public land, but custom dictates that each forest is given to one of the local families to farm, and Wadi Dawkah is his turf.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2010
Tischendorf obtained access to it in 1843 for a few hours, after some difficulty with the Prince Barberini, and published it in his first instalment of “Monumenta sacra inedita,” 1846.
From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener
R in his “Monumenta sacra inedita,” vol. ii, with a facsimile: the amended readings, together with the newly-discovered variations in chh. vi. 31-36, 39, vii.
From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener
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Human Anatomy and Physiology - High School
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