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coccyx
coccyx:
[17] The Greek physician Galen considered that the small tapering bone at the base of the human spine resembled a cuckoo’s beak. He therefore named it
kókkux
, which was Greek for ‘cuckoo’. It reached English via the Latin form
coccyx
.