Short for coccygo-, combining form of COCCYX; as in coccy-pubal, -pubic; Coccyalgia, Coccyodynia = COCCYGODYNIA.
1831. R. Knox, Cloquet’s Anat., 119. The antero-posterior, or coccy-pubic [diameter] … is measured from the summit of the coccyx to the symphysis of the pubes.
1857. Bullock, Cazeaux’ Midwif., 32. Coccy-pubal line.
1872. T. G. Thomas, Dis. Women, 121. Coccyodynia … consists in a peculiar condition of the coccyx.
