Crossword clues for clavicle
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clavicle \Clav"i*cle\, n. [F. clavicule, fr. L. clavicula a little key, tendril, dim. of clavis key, akin to claudere to shut. See Close, and cf. Clef.] (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 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"collarbone," 1610s, from Middle French clavicule "collarbone" (16c.), also "small key," from Medieval Latin clavicula "collarbone" (used c.980 in a translation of Avicenna), special use of classical Latin clavicula, literally "small key, bolt," diminutive of clavis "key" (see slot (n.2)); in the anatomical sense a loan-translation of Greek kleis "key, collarbone." So called supposedly from its function as the "fastener" of the shoulder. Related: Clavicular.
Wiktionary
n. The collarbone; the prominent bone at the top of the chest between the shoulder and the neck.
WordNet
n. bone linking the scapula and sternum [syn: collarbone]
Wikipedia
In human anatomy, the clavicle or collarbone is a long bone that serves as a strut between the shoulder blade and the sternum or breastbone. There are two clavicles, one on the left and one on the right. The clavicle is the only long bone in the body that lies horizontally. Together with the shoulder blade it makes up the shoulder girdle. It is a palpable bone and in people who have less fat in this region, the location of the bone is clearly visible, as it creates a bulge in the skin. It receives its name from the ("little key") because the bone rotates along its axis like a key when the shoulder is abducted.
Usage examples of "clavicle".
Photodilus seem not to have been investigated, but it has been found to want the tarsal loop, as well as the manubrial process, while its clavicles are not joined in a furcula, nor do they meet the keel, and the posterior margin of the sternum has processes and fissures like the tawny section.
In a case of Sangster, reported by Politzer, although most of the dermoids, as usual, were like fibroma-nodules and therefore the color of normal skin, those over the mastoid processes and clavicle were lemon-yellow, and were generally thought to be xanthoma until they were excised, and Politzer found they were typical dermoid cysts with the usual contents of degenerated epithelium and hair.
The clavicle was fractured two inches from the acromial end, and the sternal end was driven high up into the muscles of the neck.
Erichsen effected recovery by rest alone, in an individual whose ribs and both clavicles were fractured by being squeezed.
I gazed up through this maroon or oxblood space and saw what I could of her, the dark band of her swimsuit top, her clavicles set forward.
He quickly dissected the clavicles and the pectoralis muscle group free from the chest wall.
He sustained a contusion of the forehead, a fractured clavicle and a ruptured plantaris.
At the appointed moment the spotlight would be turned on me and I would struggle to my feet, with my crutches and clavicle brace, and fawn gratefully in the direction of the President.
It had entered high, just above his right shoulder blade, through muscles, reappearing just to the right of his clavicle on that side.
The bullet caught Baron Sharpe high in the chest, smashing through the clavicle, the sledgehammer impact shattering ribs and bowling him off his feet.
Along with the right clavicle, a piece of the ilium, the left radius, carpals and intercarpals.
In addition to his shattered clavicle, however, and his dislocated hip, she found a collapsed sinus in one cheek, stress fractures in both femurs, a variety of badly battered internal organs, and at least eight broken ribs.
In the clavicle area, where the muscle webs of the trapezius and deltoid are thinned out, the descending brachial plexus, which includes a big ulnar and radial nerves to the arm, is close to the bone.
The resemblance is also clear in the rib cage, a flowing wave of ribs from clavicle to pelvic girdle.
She was so emaciated, barely hidden by a loose tank top with a picture of Snoopy, that I could see, as if on X ray, the clavicle, acromion, the coracoid process.