clavicle

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The description of the treatment of this fracture seems, however, to indicate that the catena gulae of Roger and Gilbert is what we call the clavicle, though the more common Latin names of this bone are claviculus_, furcula_, juglum or os juguli_.

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  1. noun Either of two slender bones in humans that extend from the manubrium of the sternum to the acromion of the scapula. Also called collarbone.
  2. noun One of the bones of the pectoral girdle in many vertebrates.

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  • He tapped my chest just below my clavicle --right where my anger burned. —  F ;SF; - vol 090 issue 05 - May 1996
  • Renev was transported via ambulance to the hospital in Charleville-Mézières where the Team Director Alain Gallopin and team doctor confirmed the Kazakh broke his right clavicle, the same fracture which afflicted teammate Lance Armstrong earlier this week at the
  • Or his clavicle is broken, because that's only way to account for a hitch in swing. —  Deadspin
  • I next cut through the lessor pectoral muscle close up to the clavicle, and holding the upper end of the vessel between my finger and thumb, passed an aneurism-needle, so as to apply a ligature about half an inch above the orifice. —  A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners
  • When the clavicle is depressed to the fullest extent, if then the sterno-cleido-mastoid and scalenus muscles be relaxed by inclining the head and neck towards the artery, I believe it may be possible to arrest the flow of blood through the artery by compressing it against the first rib, and this position will also facilitate the operation of ligaturing the vessel The subclavian vein, W, Plate 5, is removed to some distance from the artery, Q, Plate 5. —  Surgical Anatomy
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  1. New Latin clāvīcula, from Latin, diminutive of clāvis, key (from its shape).

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  1. = French clavicule = Spanish clavícula = Portuguese clavicula = Italian clavicola, from New Latin clavicula, a special use of Latin clavicula, a small key, a tendril, diminutive of clavis, a key: see clavis.
 

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