Crossword-Solution: COCCYGEAL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Coccygeal | a. | Of or pertaining to the coccyx; as, the coccygeal vertebrae. |
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| SPINAL nerve, region of one | 1 answer |
| caudal | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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EATRE
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Sentences with COCCYGEAL (5)
Broca and others claim that the sacrum and the coccyx represent the normal tail of man, but examples are not infrequent in which there has been a fleshy or bony tail appended to the coccygeal region.
Before the Berlin Anthropological Society there were presented two adult male Papuans, in good health and spirits, who had been brought from New Guinea; their coccygeal bones projected 1 1/2 inches.
The spinal cord in man extends only as far downwards as the last dorsal or first lumbar vertebra; but a thread-like structure (the filum terminale) runs down the axis of the sacral part of the spinal canal, and even along the back of the coccygeal bones.
Turner, shews how closely the os coccyx corresponds with the true tail in the lower animals: Luschka has recently discovered at the extremity of the coccygeal bones a very peculiar convoluted body, which is continuous with the middle sacral artery; and this discovery led Krause and Meyer to examine the tail of a monkey (Macacus), and of a cat, in both of which they found a similarly convoluted body, though not at the extremity.
The number and size of the coccygeal vertebræ vary, apparently in correlation with the increased size of the tail.