Anteriorly each cord ends in the Gasserian ganglion of the trigeminal nerve and posteriorly it is united with the coccygeal nerve by a varying number of branches.
The tenth or coccygeal nerve, which escapes through a small aperture in the side of the urostyle, and is distributed to the walls of the cloaca and urinary bladder.
In some cases the depression communicates with the vertebral canal, constituting a complete sacro-coccygeal fistula, which may be lined with cylindrical or ciliated epithelium.
In some cases there is a definite history of injury, such as a kick or blow, causing fracture of the coccyx, or dislocation of the sacro-coccygeal joint.
In other cases the pain appears to be neuralgic in character, and is referable to the fifth sacral and the coccygeal nerves, or to the terminal branches of the sacral plexus distributed in this region.
All the spinal segments representing the lumbar, sacral, and coccygeal nerves lie between the level of the eleventh thoracic and first lumbar vertebræ.
Moreover, a lower character is a very long coccygeal or caudal fin, which denotes that the anus lies far forwards, and therefore that the tail has a great preponderance over the trunk.
The bones of the sex are the feet with their appurtenances, such as the pelvis with the lumbar, sacral and coccygeal vertebræ.
The coccygealor caudal vertebræ correspond to the cervical vertebræ, and are present for the sake of the sexual branchiæ; usually one and the other is arrested.
Faulty coalescence of the cutaneous covering of the back occurs most frequently over the lower sacral vertebræ, giving rise to small congenital recesses, known as post-anal dimples and coccygeal sinuses.
The chordoma is a rare form of tumour originating from the remains of the notochord in the region of the spheno-occipital synchondrosis or in the sacro-coccygeal region.
It arises from a more expanded basis than in {147} other pigeons; and in three skeletons there were one or two extra coccygeal vertebræ.
The number and size of the coccygeal vertebræ vary, apparently in correlation with the increased size of the tail.
But still I maintain that between a prostate and a uterus, as between a coccygeal bone and a vertebra, the only difference which exists is one of quantity, and that hence arises the functional difference.
A prostate is part of a uterus, just as a coccygeal bone is part (the centrum) of a vertebra.
The number and size of thecoccygeal vertebrae vary, apparently in correlation with the increased size of the tail.
It arises from a more expanded basis than in other pigeons; and in three skeletons there were one or two extra coccygeal vertebrae.
In the pig, and especially in the horse, it passes further upwards, to arise from the aponeurosis of the coccygeal muscles.
In the pig, it also takes origin higher up from the sacro-sciatic ligament and the coccygeal aponeurosis.
The fasciculi which form this muscle arise from the crest of the sacrum, and proceed thence to end successively on the coccygeal vertebrae.
Broca and others claim that the sacrum and the coccyx represent the normal tail of man, but examples are not infrequent in which there has been a fleshy or bony tail appended to the coccygeal region.
Before the Berlin Anthropological Society there were presented two adult male Papuans, in good health and spirits, who had been brought from New Guinea; theircoccygeal bones projected 1 1/2 inches.
Two cases in which the sacro-coccygeal plexus suffered isolated injury on account of their characteristic nature as gunshot injuries will be shortly quoted: (116) Sacro-coccygeal plexus.
The only part which gives way is the sacro coccygeal symphysis, which does relax, and allows the Os Coccygis to be pushed back by the child's head a full inch or more, thus enlarging the inferior strait.
The five lumbar, the five sacral and the four coccygeal vertebrae constitute the lumbar and sacro-coccygeal section of the vertebral column.
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