coccyx

[ UK /kˈɒkɪks/ ]
NOUN
  1. the end of the vertebral column in humans and tailless apes
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How To Use coccyx In A Sentence

  • From splintered bones in the coccyx, she was bedridden for nearly two years.
  • Place P.P. at the coccyx or on the upper dorsal vertebra, or on both in alternation, which is better, and treat over the kidneys with N.P. five to eight minutes, once a day for three or four days. A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication
  • P.ace N.P. at the coccyx, or near it on the spine; and then treat, by firm but momentary touches of the P. P., over the lower maxillary -- _pterygoid_ -- muscles and nerves; indeed, over the _entire_ lower jaw and its articulations. A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication
  • Had an appointment once with an osteopath when I had that trouble with my coccyx. AND GOD CREATED THE AU PAIR
  • Stella sat down quickly on the hard chair, landing painfully on her coccyx. JUST BETWEEN US
  • The region which extends from the umbilicus to the point of the coccyx is marked upon the cutaneous surface by a central raphe dividing the hypogastrium, the penis, the scrotum, and the perinaeum respectively into equal and similar sides. Surgical Anatomy
  • The pelvic diaphragm is a sheet of muscles that run from the anterior pelvis at the posterior surface of the symphysis pubis to the ischial spine and coccyx.
  • In great detail the differences are laid out between the male and female skull, spine, clavicle, sternum, coccyx, and pelvis.
  • The spinal column is composed of seven cervical vertebrae, twelve thoracic vertebrae, five lumbar vertebrae, the bony sacrum, and the coccyx.
  • Just above the coccyx is the sacrum, a ` sacred 'bone because of its use in sacrifice. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 1
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