scapulae
- plural of scapula.
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
Injuries to carpals, humerus, radius, ulna, clavicle, metacarpals, metatarsals, tarsals and various flat bones like scapulae would cause issues.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Depression is the opposite of elevation—movement downward of a bone, such as after the shoulders are shrugged and the scapulae return to their normal position from an elevated position.
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
At the breast are the sternum or breastbone, clavicles or collar-bones, and the scapulae or shoulder-blades, on which the pectoral or breast fins are placed.
From The Book of Household Management by Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary)
