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e scapula, or shoulder blade, and at the other to the sternum, or breastbone. In man each clavicle is shaped like the letter

See Episternum.

A bone in the pectoral girdle of many fishes projecting backward from the clavicle. -- Post`*cla*vic"u*lar, a.

A bone which usually connects the clavicle with the post- temporal in the pectorial arch of fishes.

Of or pertaining to the clavicle.

The clavicle.

A projection, formed by a separate ossification, at the scapular end of the clavicle of many birds.

A median bone connected with the sternum, in many vertebrates; the interclavicle.

The wishbone or merrythought of birds, formed by the united clavicles.

Below the clavicle; as, the infraclavicular fossa.

Between the clavicles; as, the interclavicular notch of the sternum.

The anterior element of the sternum which projects forward from between the clavicles in many batrachians and is usually tipped with cartilage.

bs are articulated; the shoulder girdle. In man it consists of two bones, the scapula and clavicle, on each side. -- Pectorial cross (Eccl.), a cross worn on the breast by bishops and abbots, and sometimes also by canons. -- Pectorial fins, or Pectorials (Zoöl.), fins situated on the sides, behind the gills. See Illu…

oral region of the skull; -- applied especially to a bone which usually connects the supraclavicle with the skull in the pectoral arch of fishes. -- n.

The anterior part of the coracoid (often closely united with the clavicle) in the shoulder girdle of many reptiles and amphibians.

ulder; as, the scapulo- clavicular articulation, the articulation between the scapula and clavicle.

torm started the bolts in the vessel. One, by a fall in wrestling, started the end of the clavicle from the sternum. Wiseman.

Situated under the clavicle, or collar bone; as, the subclavian arteries.

Situated above the clavicle.

zoid; trapezoidal; as, the trapezoid ligament which connects the coracoid process and the clavicle.