interclavicular

The episternal or interclavicular region is a locality traversed by so many vitally important structures gathered together in a very limited space, that all operations which concern this region require more steady caution and anatomical knowledge than most surgeons are bold enough to test their possession of.

Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

It is attached, above, to the upper and posterior border of the articular surface of the clavicle; below, to the cartilage of the first rib, near its junction with the sternum; and by its circumference to the interclavicular and anterior and posterior sternoclavicular ligaments.

III. Syndesmology. 6. Articulations of the Upper Extremity. a. Sternoclavicular Articulation 1918

The former is attached to the anterior border of the manubrium, the latter to its posterior border and to the interclavicular ligament.

IV. Myology. 5b. The Lateral Cervical Muscles 1918

-- Diagram of a vertical section of both Carapace and Plastron of a Tortoise, made transversely to the long axis of the skeleton. c, vertebral centrum; ns, neural spine which expands above into a median dorsal scute; r, rib which forms one mass with a lateral scute and terminates at a marginal plate, ic, interclavicular scute; hp, hyo-sternal scute.

The Common Frog 1874

69 Elevation of the shoulder is limited principally by the costoclavicular ligament; depression, by the interclavicular ligament and articular disk.

III. Syndesmology. 6. Articulations of the Upper Extremity. a. Sternoclavicular Articulation 1918

"He was struck by a conoidal ball, which entered just above the interclavicular notch of the sternum and lodged near the superior angle of the scapula.

Ailsa Paige 1899