scapula

/skap-yuh-luh/US // ˈskæp yə lə //UK // (ˈskæpjʊlə) //

肩胛骨,肩胛,肩胛骨的,胛骨

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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plural scap·u·las, scap·u·lae [skap-yuh-lee]. /ˈskæp yəˌli/.
- : Anatomy. either of two flat, triangular bones, each forming the back part of a shoulder in humans; shoulder blade.
- : Zoology. a dorsal bone of the pectoral girdle.

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.
At an inn in Lincolnshire, a huge scapula is exhibited as a relic of the famous dun cow.
But there is no teleological reason why the coracoid process of the scapula should in all mammals develop from a separate centre.
The scapula (with supra-scapula) is the pleurapophysis, the coracoid the hæmapophysis, of the occipital vertebra.
In the pelvic girdle the ilium corresponds to the scapula, the ischium to the coracoid, the pubis to the clavicle.