scapula

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Meaning

The principal bone of the shoulder girdle in mammals; the shoulder blade.

One of the plates from which the arms of a crinoid arise.

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I was hospitalized five times in 2011 because of my skiing. Fracturing my left shoulder twice, snapping my anterior cruciate ligament once and smashing my scapula into five pieces. Heather Mills

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

A musket bullet fired from the mizzentop of Redoutable struck Nelson in the left shoulder, passed through his spine at the sixth and seventh thoracic vertebrae, and lodged two inches below his right scapula in the muscles of his back. 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

The axillary lymph nodes include the pectoral (chest), subscapular (under the scapula), and humeral (humerus-bone area) lymph-node groups, which drain to the central axillary lymph nodes and to the apical axillary lymph nodes. Source: Internet

The shoulder is composed of the clavicle (collarbone), the humerus (arm bone) and the scapula (shoulder blade). Source: Internet

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