sacrum
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Noun — The wide, triangular bone at the bottom of the backbone, sitting between the two hip bones and formed from vertebrae that join together as a person grows up.
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Etymology
From Latin os sacrum (“holy bone”), a calque of Ancient Greek ἱερὸν ὀστέον (hieròn ostéon). Apparently so called either because the sacrum was the part of the animal offered in sacrifice or because of a putative belief that it is where a person's soul resides. A third explanation is that the term is a translation of An...
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