interclavicle

[in-ter-klav-i-kuhl]

noun

Zoology.

1. a median membrane bone developed between the collarbones, or in front of the breastbone, in many vertebrates.

interclavicle

/ ˌɪntəkləˈvɪkjʊlə, ˌɪntəˈklævɪkəl /

noun

1. a membrane bone between and beneath the clavicles, present in some fossil amphibians, all reptiles except snakes, and monotremes

Other Word Forms

• interclavicular adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of interclavicle¹

First recorded in 1865–70; inter- + clavicle

Example Sentences

Tau′-bone, a Τ-shaped bone, as the interclavicle of a monotreme; Tau′-cross, a cross in the form of a Τ—also Cross-tau and Cross of St Anthony; Tau′-staff, a staff with a cross-piece at the top like a crutch.—adj.

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Episternum, ep-i-ster′num, n. the interclavicle: the epiplastron: the presternum of mammals.—adj.

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It is clear that the paired elements of such a girdle were held rigid by their attachment to the interclavicle, via the clavicles.

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In the remote predecessor of Anura, Amphibamus of the Pennsylvanian, the pectoral girdle was less substantial than in many of its contemporaries, but it contained the primitive median interclavicle in addition to the clavicle, cleithrum, and scapulocoracoid.

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Subsequent elimination of the interclavicle in the Anuran line of descent, and decrease of ossification, left a girdle like that of Protobatrachus, Notobatrachus, Ascaphus and Leiopelma.

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