shoulder-girdle

We shall omit here any detailed reference to the other three memoirs, which deal with the hyoid, with the branchial arches and the structures which correspond in air-breathing Vertebrates, and with the bones of the shoulder-girdle.

Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

These memoirs (published in the _Annales du Muséum d'Histoire naturelle_, vols.ix. and x., 1807) dealt with the homology between the bones of the pectoral fin and girdle in fish and the bones of the arm and shoulder-girdle in higher Vertebrates, with the homologies of the bones of the sternum, and with the determination of the pieces of the skull, particularly in the crocodile.

Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

Thus most patients are made comfortable if an appropriate bandage is used to transfer the weight of the breasts from the arm-pits and the front of the chest to the bones of the shoulder-girdle.

The Prospective Mother, a Handbook for Women During Pregnancy

The scapula and clavicle, the bones of the body connected with the fore-limb, are frequently styled the pectoral girdle, or shoulder-girdle; this name of girdle will appear less of a misnomer when lower vertebrate types are studied.

Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata

He has separated the head from the spine, instead of cutting through the spine lower down, as most persons would have done: he removed the arms with the entire shoulder-girdle, instead of simply cutting them off at the shoulder-joints.

The Eye of Osiris

He was covered all over with a suit of armor made of thousands and thousands of tiny scales, so small and fine that the eye could hardly separate them, and from the bony shoulder-girdle just behind his gills a raised line, dark and slightly waving, ran back to his tail, like the sheer-line of a ship.

Forest Neighbors Life Stories of Wild Animals

What the shoulder-girdle of Stereognathus might be like is uncertain.

Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2

"But what instantly arrested my attention on reading the newspaper report was the unusual manner in which the arm had been separated; for, besides the bones of the arm proper, there were those of what anatomists call the 'shoulder-girdle' -- the shoulder-blade and collar-bone.

The Eye of Osiris