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Clavicle   Listen
noun
Clavicle  n.  (Anat.) The collar bone, which is joined at one end to the scapula, or shoulder blade, and at the other to the sternum, or breastbone. In man is situated just above the first rib on either side of the neck. In birds the two clavicles are united ventrally, forming the merrythought, or wishbone.






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"Clavicle" Quotes from Famous Books



... eyeless sockets; even the graceful, swan-like neck showed the articulated vertebral column that supported it in all its hideous reality. The beautiful shoulders were there, dimly as in a dream—but beneath was the empty clavicle, the knotty joint, the hollow sternum, and the ribs ...
— New Burlesques • Bret Harte



Words linked to "Clavicle" :   endoskeleton, bone, os, arteria subclavia, collarbone, subclavian artery



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