clavicle
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6.6
- noun
- /ˈklævɪkəl/
- Specialized
:
clavícula
- The doctor explained how the clavicle connects the shoulder blade to the sternum.
- clavicle fracture
- clavicle fractures will heal
- end of the clavicle
Erase the red and Violet lines on your arms and the sword scar on your clavicle.
- Erase the red and Violet lines on your arms and the sword scar on your clavicle.
- No weapon, just ran right up to Ho Chi Minh and karate chop him in the clavicle.
- And what they found was that if the life jackets lifted the clavicle up out of the water, the survival time went through the roof.
- We've got your clavicles that end right over the armpit.
- This is going to snatch the out of your jaw, your nose and your clavicle bones, wherever those are.
- Feel something weird right up here in my left clavicle and going through it.
- Max Griffin, he has only God can judge me up here on his clavicle.
- And I just want you to put a little Old Spice in that little, make you a little pond of, you know, where your clavicle makes that little pond right there on your neck.
- A cat came off this roof one time of a camper and fucking got me right around my clavicle when we were about to go to the river one time couldn't even go.
Examples
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I think I have a bruise, Dr. Heimlich. Would you mind taking a look at my clavicle?
Fiction book (1996) -
Maybe her clavicle is broken, too.
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I broke my clavicle once.
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Your left clavicle and three ribs are shattered.
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Left clavicle is fractured.
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Traditionally, clavicle fractures were treated with figure-of-eight braces in children.
Academic text (2006) -
Due to abundant callus formation, clavicle fractures usually heal with a palpable and visible bump.
Academic text (2006) -
The X-ray showed that my clavicle was broken in four places and that I needed surgery.
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He is recovering from surgery on his broken clavicle after a biking accident.
Synonyms
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3.1
A bone that connects the shoulder to the chest bone
Surface Forms
Etymology
Clavicle comes from the Latin clavicula, which means 'little key', from clavis 'key'. The bone was called a 'little key' because its shape looked like a small key and because it acts like a short bar that helps hold the shoulder in place.