Sacral region

Author: Christina Loukopoulou, MSc • Reviewer: Dimitrios Mytilinaios, MD, PhD
Last reviewed: March 20, 2024
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The sacral region is one of the distinct topographical regions of the back and buttocks which include the suprascapular, scapular, interscapular, infrascapular, vertebral, lateral pectoral, lumbar regions.

It is situated just above the buttocks and at the base of the spine inferior to the vertebral region.

Specifically, the sacral region comprises a triangular area that overlies the sacrum which consists of five fused sacral vertebral and costal segments. The sacral canal, a continuation of the vertebral canal, is also found within the sacrum and terminates as the sacral hiatus.

Terminology	English: Sacral region Latin: Regio sacralis
Definition	The sacral region comprises a triangular area that overlies the sacrum.

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Moore, K. L., Dalley, A. F. and Agur, A. (2017). Clinically oriented anatomy (8th ed.). Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.

Standring, S. (2016). Gray's Anatomy (41st ed.). Edinburgh: Elsevier Churchill Livingstone.

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