||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.
&fist; 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 vertebræ, which diminish
in size very rapidly to the posterior extremity, which bears the
coccyx.
||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.
&fist; 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 vertebræ, which diminish
in size very rapidly to the posterior extremity, which bears the
coccyx.
