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Scapula   /skˈæpjələ/   Listen
Scapula

noun
(pl. L. scapulae, E. scapulas)
1.
Either of two flat triangular bones one on each side of the shoulder in human beings.  Synonyms: shoulder blade, shoulder bone.



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... The scapula resembles that of the cetacean Hyperoodon, but the supra-spinous fossa is larger and more seal-like; as is the humerus, which differs from that of the Cetacea in presenting true articular surfaces for the free jointing of the bones of the fore-arm. In the apparently complete absence ...
— Critiques and Addresses • Thomas Henry Huxley
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... the crepitant ronchus was heard in the upper part of each lung. There was general dulness throughout the lower part of both, with the exception of a small space at the inferior angle of the left scapula, where pectoriloquy was distinctly heard, from which was concluded the cavernous state of a portion of that lung. The heart's action was languid, and often intermitting, producing vertigo and occasional syncope. The pulse was gradually becoming slower; and at this time, (Nov. 1836,) it was forty-three ...
— An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis • Archibald Makellar
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... compiled since the invention of printing; but Dolet's Commentaries on the Latin Tongue (1536), are practically a reversion to the arrangement by roots. Henry Stephanus' Greek Thesaurus (1572) and Scapula's well-known abridgement of it (1579) are both radical; and as late as the seventeenth century this method was employed in the first Dictionary of the French Academy, which was designed in 1638 but not published till 1694. That, however, was its last appearance. The preface ...
— The Age of Erasmus - Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London • P. S. Allen
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Words linked to "Scapula" :   shoulder bone, acromion, bone, scapular, endoskeleton, acromial process, articulatio humeri, glenoid cavity, glenoid fossa, shoulder blade, os, shoulder, shoulder joint


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