Scapula Definition

skăpyə-lə
scapulae, scapulas
noun
scapulae, scapulas
Either of two flat, triangular bones in the back of the shoulders of humans, or a similar bone in other vertebrates; shoulder blade.
Webster's New World
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Noun

Singular:
scapula
Plural:
scapulae, scapulas

Origin of Scapula

  • Late Latin shoulder from Latin scapulae the shoulder blades

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Late Latin scapula (“shoulder").

    From Wiktionary

Scapula Sentence Examples

  • Coracoid and scapula fused.

  • The scapula is sabre-shaped, and extends backwards over the ribs, lying almost parallel to the vertebral column.

  • Its strong belly originates near the shoulder joint from clavicle, coracoid and scapula.

  • The sternum has no keel, and ossifies from lateral and paired centres only; the axes of the scapula and cora.coid have the same general direction; certain of the cranial bones have characters very unlike those possessed by the next order - the vomer, for example, being broad posteriorly and generally intervening between the basisphenoidal rostrum and the palatals and pterygoids; the barbs of the feathers are disconnected; there is no syrinx or inferior larynx; and the diaphragm is better developed than in other birds.'

  • They first came into contact with the Romans during the reign of Claudius, when they were defeated by Publius Ostorius Scapula.

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