scapula alata

[ ā-lā′tə ]

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winged scapula

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QUIZ YOURSELF ON "WAS" VS. "WERE"!

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“Was” is used for the indicative past tense of “to be,” and “were” is only used for the subjunctive past tense.

Words nearby scapula alata

I can figure you with your Herodotus before you, your Scapula on one side, and your maps on the other, setting-to in good earnest.
Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford|Edward Berens
At an inn in Lincolnshire, a huge scapula is exhibited as a relic of the famous dun cow.
Traditions, Superstitions and Folk-lore|Charles Hardwick
But there is no teleological reason why the coracoid process of the scapula should in all mammals develop from a separate centre.
Form and Function|E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
The scapula (with supra-scapula) is the pleurapophysis, the coracoid the hæmapophysis, of the occipital vertebra.
Form and Function|E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

In the pelvic girdle the ilium corresponds to the scapula, the ischium to the coracoid, the pubis to the clavicle.
Form and Function|E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell