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Scapula   /skˈæpjələ/   Listen
noun
Scapula  n.  (pl. L. scapulae, E. scapulas)  
1.
(Anat.) The principal bone of the shoulder girdle in mammals; the shoulder blade.
2.
(Zool.) One of the plates from which the arms of a crinoid arise.






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"Scapula" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Polychronicon," saith in plaine wordes, that it is vnknowen who was the first founder of Chester, but that it tooke the name of the soiourning there of some Romaine legions, by whome also it is not vnlike that it might be first built by P. Ostorius Scapula, who as we find, after he had subdued Caratacus king of the Ordouices that inhabited the countries now called Lancashire, Cheshire, and Salopshire, built in those parts, and among the Silures, certeine places of defense, for the better ...
— Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (2 of 8) - The Second Booke Of The Historie Of England • Raphael Holinshed

... which seem to be soft, but are really very hard. He says that they are often complicated by very painful conditions, and that they cause enlargement of the glands and of the arms. The pain may spread to the clavicle and the scapula, and he seems to think that it is the pain that causes the enlargement of the glands at ...
— Old-Time Makers of Medicine • James J. Walsh



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