sacrum
IPA: sˈeɪkrʌm
noun
- (anatomy) A large triangular bone at the base of the spine, located between the two ilia (wings of the pelvis) and formed from vertebrae that fuse in adulthood.
Examples of "sacrum" in Sentences
- See etymology of sacrum for more.
- Mobility of the sacrum between the ilia.
- It runs from the skull base to the sacrum.
- On either side of the body is the ala of sacrum.
- Anatomically, the rump corresponds to the sacrum.
- See 'ver sacrum' and the the deduction of the Picenes.
- In the medial tract, the multifidi originates on the sacrum.
- Together with the sacrum and coccyx, it comprises the pelvis.
- The surface on the sacrum is convex and that on the coccyx concave.
- It is defined by the nonfusion of the first and second segments of the sacrum.
- At the bottom of the sacrum is a hole through which massive amounts of energy pass.
- The sign of the Churches ver sacrum is the rose, the golden rose blessed today by the Holy Father.
- The spinal column rests on a strong three-sided bone called the sacrum, or sacred-bone, which is wedged in between the hip bones and forms the keystone of the pelvis.
- Next, bring your attention to your sacrum, which houses your sacred sexual energies and is the root of your psychophysical structure the word sacrum means “sacred place” in Latin.
- The cavity is shallower and wider; the sacrum is shorter wider, and its upper part is less curved; the obturator foramina are triangular in shape and smaller in size than in the male.
- In the female the sacrum is shorter and wider than in the male; the lower half forms a greater angle with the upper; the upper half is nearly straight, the lower half presenting the greatest amount of curvature.
- The female pelvis is shallower and wider, less massive, the margins of the bones are more widely separated, thus giving greater prominence to the hips; the sacrum is shorter and less curved, and the pubic arch is wider and more rounded.
- Charlemagne and his advisers conceived of his new authority as a revival of the old imperial power; only with Otto I was the distinctively new character of the regime recognized; and it became “holy” only when Frederick Barbarossa introduced the word sacrum into his title in 1155.