Relating to or connecting the femur (thighbone) and the coccyx (tailbone).
Compound of 'femoro-' (femur) and 'coccygeal' (from Greek 'kokkyx' meaning cuckoo, named for the bone's bird-like shape). A purely anatomical descriptive term.
The coccyx got its name because ancient Greeks thought it looked like a cuckoo bird's beak—so 'femorococcygeal' literally means 'thighbone-to-cuckoo-bone,' one of anatomy's most whimsical etymologies.
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