coccyx
pronunciation
How to pronounce coccyx in British English:
UK [ˈkɒksɪks]
How to pronounce coccyx in American English:
US [ˈkɑksɪks]
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- Noun:
- the end of the vertebral column in humans and tailless apes
Word Origin
- coccyx
- coccyx: [17] The Greek physician Galen considered that the small tapering bone at the base of the human spine resembled a cuckoo’s beak. He therefore named it kókkux, which was Greek for ‘cuckoo’. It reached English via the Latin form coccyx.
- coccyx (n.)
- 1610s, from Latin coccyx, from Greek kokkyx "cuckoo" (from kokku, like the bird's English name echoic of its cry), so called by ancient Greek physician Galen because the bone in humans supposedly resembles a cuckoo's beak.
Example
- 1. Sir , I believe you just shattered my coccyx .
- 2. Of or relating to or near the coccyx .
- 3. My coccyx feels aching is how to return a responsibility suddenly .
- 4. And coccyx has a pointed state protuberant how be to return a responsibility ?
- 5. Conclusions both the sacral pedicle and the lateral mass screw fixation technology can offer effective fixation and reconstruction for the fracture of sacrum and coccyx , but the pedicle screw fixation may be more convenient , safe and reliable than the lateral mass screw fixation technology .