scapula
noun
either of two flat, triangular bones, each forming the back part of a shoulder in humans; shoulder blade.
scapulae
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pluralof scapula.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Medieval Europeans prized beavers’ fatty tail meat as “forest cod,” and some Indigenous tribes fashioned their teeth into dice and used their scapulae as digging tools.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 1, 2022
The pectoral girdle is composed of the clavicles and the scapulae.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
The scapulae are flat, triangular bones that are located at the back of the pectoral girdle.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Woods has never met Golf Digest Visuals Editor Jenny Aborn, but of course notices the tiger tattoo stretching across her scapulae.
From Golf Digest ● Jan. 2, 2018
He could displace his muscles so that the lower angles of the scapulae projected and presented the appearance historically attributed to luxation of the scapula.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
