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Scapula   Listen
noun
Scapula  n.  (pl. L. scapulae, E. scapulas)  
1.
(Anat.) The principal bone of the shoulder girdle in mammals; the shoulder blade.
2.
(Zool.) One of the plates from which the arms of a crinoid arise.






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"Scapula" Quotes from Famous Books



... seldom-explored press, in a nook at Oriel. With long poring, he is grown almost into a book. He stood as passive as one by the side of the old shelves. I longed to new-coat him in Russia, and assign him his place. He might have mustered for a tall Scapula. ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Volume 2 • Charles Lamb

... On his arm there drooped a lady no longer in her twenties, and from the V-shaped opening in the rear of her dinner gown a medical student could have distinguished with more or less certainty the bones of the cervical vertebrae, the right and left scapula and the articulation of each with the ...
— Elkan Lubliner, American • Montague Glass

... her and rushing out when she opened the door. This preyed on her mind, and she felt sure her child would be marked. The whole of the child's right thigh was encircled by a shining black mole, studded with white hairs; there was another mole on the spine of the left scapula. (C.F. Williamson, Horley, Surrey, ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis

... named Caradoc by the Britons and Caractacus by the Romans. He fought for the independence of Britain, and held the armies of the most famous Roman generals at bay for a period of about nine years. But eventually, in A.D. 50, he was defeated by the Roman general Ostorius Scapula, in the hilly region near Church Stretton, in Shropshire, not far from a hill still known as Caer Caradoc, his wife and daughters being taken prisoners in the cave known as Caradoc's Cave. He himself escaped to the Isle of Mona, afterwards named Anglesey, ...
— From John O'Groats to Land's End • Robert Naylor and John Naylor

... is not a mass of broken bones, I am happy to say," he reported gravely to Lorraine afterwards. "He has a sufficient number, however. The left scapula is fractured, likewise the clavicle, and there is a compound fracture of the femur. There is some injury to the head, the exact extent of which I cannot as yet determine. He should be removed to a hospital, unless you are prepared to have a nurse here for some time, or to assume the burden ...
— The Quirt • B.M. Bower

... icy, or greasy pavements, where they are easily liable to lose their foothold. The region of the strain is the posterior part of the shoulder, and the affected muscles are those which occupy the space between the posterior border of the scapula and the posterior face of the arm. It is the muscles of the ...
— Special Report on Diseases of the Horse • United States Department of Agriculture



Words linked to "Scapula" :   acromion, os, shoulder bone, shoulder, articulatio humeri, glenoid fossa, acromial process, bone, glenoid cavity, endoskeleton, scapular, shoulder joint



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