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clavicle 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
  1. bone linking the scapula and sternum
  2. In human anatomy, the clavicle or collar bone is classified as a long bone that makes up part of the shoulder girdle (pectoral girdle). It receives its name from the Latin clavicula ("little key") because the bone rotates along its axis like a key when the shoulder is abducted. ...
  3. The prominent bone between the shoulder and the neck
  4. The word clavicles derives from the Latin "clavicula" meaning the collar-bone. Each clavicle articulates by its dorsal end with a process on the median side of the dorsal end of the coracoid, or with the scapula, or with both; the ventral ends of the two clavicles generally fuse with each other, ...
  5. The collarbone. This bone is used as a strut to strengthen the upper skeleton, particularly the arms, while hanging; it also acts as a crankshaft when raising the arm.
  6. diminutive of Latin clavis = key - old Roman key was S-shaped.
  7. Refers to a doubly-curved long bone located directly above the first rib that connects the arm to the body, allowing maximum range of motion.
  8. Clavicula is Latin for tendril. The name of the bone was apparently reminiscent of a tendril because of its twining course in connecting the scapula to the sternum.
  9. These small bones are known as the collarbones and serve mainly as a brace to hold the shoulders and arms out at the proper distance. They also act as a brace. The clavicles actually get noticeably larger and stronger in response to long term stress, such as when you work out regularly. ...
  10. A ventral bone of the pectoral girdle. Reduced or absent in many mammals. The collarbone in humans.
  11. A long, curved, horizontal bone just above the first rib and forming the front portion of the shoulder sometimes called the collarbone.
  12. Collarbone. Clavicular epiphyseal fracture is the fracture of the growth plate of the clavicle.
  13. Also called collarbone, it is either of the two slender bones in humans that extend from the manubrium of the sternum to the acromion of the scapula.
  14. More commonly known as the “collar bone”.
  15. Also known as the collarbone, to which the muscles of the neck and shoulder attach.
  16. the collarbone. One sits above each breast and is joined to the breastbone (sternum). Lymph nodes are above and below this bone. See also lymph nodes, infraclavicular, supraclavicular.