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In adults, there is a reduced amount of brown fat and it is found mainly in the neck and clavicular regions of the body.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

The clavicular notch is the shallow depression located on either side at the superior-lateral margins of the manubrium.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

Some—indeed, a great many—teachers direct their students to employ "abdominal" or "diaphragmatic" breathing, others "clavicular" respiration.

From Voice Production in Singing and Speaking Based on Scientific Principles (Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged) by Mills, Wesley

The trapezius in man similarly arises in part from the clavicle; for the reasons above indicated its clavicular fasciculi cannot exist in distinct form in the animals which have no clavicle.

From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by Cuyer, ?douard

The clavicular portion of the pectoralis major must then be divided right across its fibres, which will retract.

From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Bell, Joseph