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clavicle

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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 each clavicle is shaped like the letter /, and 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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But as precedents survive like the clavicle in the cat, long after the use they once served is at an end, and the reason for them has been forgotten, the result of following them must often be failure and confusion from the merely logical point of view. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

A clavicle is never present, and the scapula is very agile and swings back and forth for added mobility when running. Source: Internet

Assuming that the target is, for example, a human torso, ten-uchi will break the initial resistance supplied by shoulder muscles and the clavicle. Source: Internet

All of those movements are made possible by the soft tissue that attaches to the scapula, and is linked up to the ribcage, humerus, and clavicle to make up the entire shoulder girdle. Source: Internet

Elsevier Health Sciences, 2001, p. 12. These 21 are further grouped into ten bilateral minor chakras that correspond to the foot, hand, knee, elbow, groin, clavicle, navel, shoulder and ear. Source: Internet

At the front of the chest, the breast tissue can extend from the clavicle (collarbone) to the middle of the sternum (breastbone). Source: Internet

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