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SCAPULA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: scapulae   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Either of two flat triangular bones one on each side of the shoulder in human beings

Synonyms:

scapula; shoulder blade; shoulder bone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("scapula" is a kind of...):

bone; os (rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates)

Meronyms (parts of "scapula"):

glenoid cavity; glenoid fossa (the concavity in the head of the scapula that receives the head of the humerus to form the shoulder joint)

acromial process; acromion (the outermost point of the spine of the shoulder blade)

Holonyms ("scapula" is a part of...):

articulatio humeri; shoulder; shoulder joint (a ball-and-socket joint between the head of the humerus and a cavity of the scapula)

endoskeleton (the internal skeleton; bony and cartilaginous structure (especially of vertebrates))

Derivation:

scapular (relating to or near the shoulder blade)

Credits

 Context examples: 

At all anatomical sites disrupted by Holt-Oram syndrome mutations, BMP7 is expressed in all structures that are altered in Holt-Oram Syndrome patients, including the heart, proximal and distal forelimb, clavicle, and scapula, as well as other unaffected tissues.

(Bone Morphogenetic Protein 7, NCI Thesaurus)

The muscle that creates the rounded contour of the shoulder which originates from the lateral third of the clavicle, the superior surface of the acromion process, and the posterior border of the spine of the scapula and inserts on the lateral side of the shaft of the humerus.

(Deltoid, NCI Thesaurus)