Crossword-Solution: COCCYX
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Coccyx | n. | The end of the vertebral column beyond the sacrum in man and tailless monkeys. It is composed of several vertebrae more or less consolidated. |
We have 25 clues for the answer “COCCYX”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Lower part of a column | 1 answer |
| the end of the vertebral column in humans and tailless apes | 1 answer |
| Triangular bone at the base of the spine | 1 answer |
| Tip of the vertebral column | 1 answer |
| Tailbone | 1 answer |
| Tail bone | 1 answer |
| Small bone at the base of the spinal column in humans | 1 answer |
| Sacrum neighbor | 1 answer |
| SPINAL column, triangular bone at end of | 1 answer |
| Remnant of a vestigial tail | 1 answer |
| Bone below the sacrum | 1 answer |
| Bone at the bottom of the spine | 1 answer |
| A small triangular bone at the base of the spinal column in humans | 1 answer |
| LOWER backbone | 2 answers |
| SPINAL bone | 2 answers |
| SPINE, composite bone of the | 2 answers |
| BONE end of spine | 2 answers |
| Human tail? | 3 answers |
| Vertebrae | 6 answers |
| Pelvic Bone | 9 answers |
| Hindquarters | 28 answers |
| Haunch | 31 answers |
| fundament | 31 answers |
| BONE of the human body | 41 answers |
| Bone | 64 answers |
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Sentences with COCCYX (5)
They spelled from the physiology, chlorophyll, coccyx, arytenoid, and the names of the bones and nerves, and all the hard words inside you.
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.
Blanchard says he saw a tail fully a span in length: and there is a description in 1690 of a man by the name of Emanuel Konig, a son of a doctor of laws who had a tail half a span long, which grew directly downward from the coccyx and was coiled on the perineum, causing much discomfort.
Jacob describes a pouch of skin resembling a tail which hung from the tip of the coccyx to the length of six inches.
Miller tells of a West Point student who had an elongation of the coccyx, forming a protuberance which bulged very visibly under the skin.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Three Across.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1998–2019).