Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The coccyx, or os coccygis, when its elements are ankylosed in one bone, as in man.
- noun A caudal or coccygeal vertebra, when there are several, free and distinct from one another.
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Examples
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"I'd like to look around, and my tail-bone is tired," Roger said.
I Don’t Understand ? Jack Varnell 2010
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Ever wonder why the bone at the spinal base is called the tail-bone??
Wired Top Stories 2009
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Where Mr. Alexander and his establishment colleagues utterly fall on their collective tail-bone is toward the end of his article when he notes that Latin America has done fairly well, in the past five years, economically, compared with many other regions of the world.
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I am not a cell phone person, I have no laptop and there are no computers in the assembly room so I will have many hours of sitting on plastic molded chairs, shifting to accommodate the painful tail-bone.
Archive 2008-08-01 jek-a-go-go 2008
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Contraction of the urogenital diaphragm with the anal lock also puts direct stimulatory pressure on a little-known but very important gland called the ‘Luschka Gland’, which hangs like a cherry at the very tip of the coccyx, or ‘tail-bone’.
The Tao of Health, Sex and Longevity Daniel Reid 1989
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Nothing now holds the skin to the body but the tail-bone, which separate.
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Some of these have still a certain degree of utility, though diminished and still diminishing in size and functional importance, like our third molars or "wisdom" teeth, our fifth or "little" toes, our gall-bladder, our coccyx or tail-bone, the hair-glands scattered all over the now practically hairless surface of our bodies, and our once movable ears, which can no longer be "pricked," or laid back.
Preventable Diseases Woods Hutchinson 1896
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I've been researching all manner of tail-bone injuries for 2 hours, but it looks like though there is pain / bruising when sitting down and stuff, no lasting damage comes from this.
[Help] Most Recent Posts kaymin11 2009
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Where Mr. Alexander and his establishment colleagues utterly fall on their collective tail-bone is toward the end of his article when he notes that Latin America has done fairly well, in the past five years, economically, compared with many other regions of the world.
unknown title 2009
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Where Mr. Alexander and his establishment colleagues utterly fall on their collective tail-bone is toward the end of his article when he notes that Latin America has done fairly well, in the past five years, economically, compared with many other regions of the world.
unknown title 2009
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