collarbone
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3.1
- noun
- /ˈkɒlərˌboʊn/
:
clavícula
- The doctor explained how the collarbone connects the shoulder blade to the breastbone.
- a broken collarbone
- to break a collarbone
- a fractured collarbone
But when I did that, I heard a loud pop and it was my collarbone shattering.
- But when I did that, I heard a loud pop and it was my collarbone shattering.
- And we cannot forget the collarbones.
- I'll just show you you can start at the collarbone and move up and this helps to sculpt the neck and jaw line as well.
- Pour one out for my, for my old collarbone configuration.
- I feel something just Charley horse my collarbone and I just like drop.
- Oh, like that little tree destroyed the TRXI, broke my collarbone.
- I was obliged to dismount, landing on my shoulder and broke a collarbone.
- And I'm going to take a little bit of this highlighter and just highlight my chest a little bit, collarbone, shoulders.
- So I'm going to fix up the decolletage, Decollete area, my collarbone.
Examples
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The girl you see is grim-looking, pale, and so thin her collarbone sticks out like a rod.
Fiction book (1993) -
While everyone eats, the baby settles his head between my collarbone and my shoulder.
Fiction book (1997) -
I think it's just above his collarbone.
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Looks like you broke your collarbone.
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I broke both of my collarbones at the same time.
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Irvin's at home with a broken collarbone.
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The worst bruise started below her collarbone, just above her heart, and spread upward toward her throat.
Fiction book (1995) -
Your collarbone's broken but it's not shattered.
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Shadow pooled in the hollow of her collarbone as she stretched one arm toward me.
Fiction book (1994) -
All they've said so far is that his collarbone is broken and his face needed some stitches.
Fiction book (1996)
Synonyms
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6.6
A long bone near the top of the chest that connects the shoulder to the breastbone, called the collarbone
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Collarbone comes from collar meaning 'something that goes around the neck' and bone. So, it is the bone that sits just under your collar and helps connect the shoulder to the chest.