coccyx

来自拉丁词coccyx, 布谷鸟，拟声词。因形似布谷鸟鸟嘴而得名。

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.

coccyx (n.)

1610s, from Latin coccyx, from Greek kokkyx "cuckoo" (from kokku, like the bird's English name echoic of its cry), so called by ancient Greek physician Galen because the bone in humans supposedly resembles a cuckoo's beak.

1. And coccyx has a pointed state protuberant how be to a responsibility?

并且尾骨有一个尖状突起是怎么回事?

2. The coccyx is a small bone at the base of the spine.

尾骨是脊骨底部的一块小骨.