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PROMONTORY OF THE SACRUM

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Definitions of PROMONTORY OF THE SACRUM

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary

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the upper or projecting part of the sacrum.

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland

The projection forward formed by the last lumbar vertebra and the upper part of the sacrum. See also sacrovertebral angle, under angle. [Lat.]

1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
By Smith Ely Jelliffe

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