Associations to the word «Coccyx»

Wiktionary

COCCYX, noun. (medical) (formal) The final (bottommost) fused vertebrae at the base of the spine, the tailbone.

Dictionary definition

COCCYX, noun. The end of the vertebral column in humans and tailless apes.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope