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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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d8Sacrum \[d8]Sa"crum\, n.; pl. {sacra}. [NL., fr. L. sacer sacred, os sacrum the lowest bone of the spine.] (Anat.) That part of the vertebral column which is directly connected with, or forms a part of, the pelvis. Note: It may consist of a single vertebra or of several more or less consolidated. In man it forms the dorsal, or posterior, wall of the pelvis, and consists of five united vertebr[91], which diminish in size very rapidly to the posterior extremity, which bears the coccyx. | |
