The scapula was very mobile, as if unslung from the thorax.
Note in this case that a bullet was found in the left scapula region.
The left side of the trunk seemed a little less developed than the right, and the scapula stuck a little less closely to the body on the left side, when the arms were raised.
On raising the arm the scapula followed its movements and detached itself completely from the thorax, dislocating upwards with lively pain.
I may safely say, that, on an average, every scapula or indulgence sold in the United States costs at least five dollars.
In 1706 there only remained of these bones a portion of the scapula and a fragment of the wrist bone; the anatomist Blumenbach, who saw them at the beginning of the century, easily recognised in them the bones of an Elephant.
Mantell as affording another example of the blending of the Crocodilian with the Lacertian type of structure; for we have, in the pectoral arch, the scapula or omoplate of a crocodile associated with the coracoid of a lizard.
The head, pelvis, and scapula only of this strange-looking animal have been found, but these are considered to have belonged to a gigantic air-breathing reptile closely connected with the Batrachians.
The spine of the back, one scapula, the pelvis, and the other three limbs were still held together by the ligaments and by parts of the skin; the other scapula was found not far off.
Along the dorsal edge of the scapula of the rabbit is unossified cartilage, which is called the supra-scapula (s.
Both skeletons of the Sultan fowl had eight dorsal vertebræ, and the end of the scapula in both was somewhat attenuated.
The reduction in length on an average is very nearly one-fifth of an inch, or about one-ninth of the length of the scapula in the rock-pigeon.
Certain parts of the scapula and the terminal sternal bones have become highly variable in shape.
I have measured the length of the scapula in nine different large and small-sized breeds, and in all the scapula is proportionally shorter (taking the same standard as before) than in the wild rock-pigeon.
In the sternum, furcula, coracoids, and scapula, the differences are so slight and so variable as not to be worth notice, except that in two skeletons of the Penguin duck the terminal portion of the scapula was much attenuated.
Nor has the scapula increased in length in due proportion to the increased length of the body.
The bones exfoliated, the spine and the acromial end of the scapula came away, and a good stump was formed.
Below each scapula there were tumors of the nature of fibroma molluscum.
Will gives an excellent instance of avulsion of the right arm and scapulain a girl of eighteen, who was caught in flax-spinning machinery.
Another trick was to leave flaccid that part of the serratus magnus which is attached to the inferior angle of the scapula whilst he roused energetic contraction in the rhomboids.
The handle is made by flattening the neck of the scapula and cutting through it a large horizontal elliptical slot, below which the end of the scapula is worked into a rounded bar 1 inch in diameter.
It is made by cutting off the anterior edge of a reindeer's scapula in a straight line parallel to the posterior edge and cutting fine saw teeth on this thin edge.
This makes a tool very much like a carpenter's backsaw, the narrow part of the scapula forming a convenient handle.
The name 'coracoid,' originally applied to the process so called in the human scapula and subsequently extended to the independent element homologous with it in birds and other vertebrates, has been more especially retained (e.
Consequently, as an element better representing the scapula exists, the element named scapula (by Owen, Guenther, etc.
The scapula in the Urodele and other Batrachians is entirely or almost wholly excluded from the glenoid foramen, and above the coracoid.
Therefore there is an a priori improbability against the homology with the scapula of any part having a distant and merely ligamentous connection with the humerus-bearing element.
Neither the scapula in Batrachians nor the cartilaginous extension thereof, designated suprascapula, is dissevered from the coracoid.
As this compound bone, composed of the scapula and ectocoracoid fused together, has received no name which is not ambiguous or deceptive in its homologous allusions, it may be designated as proscapula.
The muscle 6 elevates the ribs when the scapula is fixed, or draws the scapula forward and downward when the ribs are fixed.
A process of the scapula shaped like the beak of a crow.
The ligaments that extend from the clavicle (1) to the scapula (4.
The muscles 11, 12, draw the scapula upward toward the head, and slightly backward.
A process of the scapulathat joins to the clavicle.
The ligaments 5, 6, extend from the scapula to the first bone of the arm.
The muscle 1 draws the arm by the side, and across the chest, and likewise draws the scapula forward.
A process projecting backward and downward from the acromion of the scapula of some mammals.
A process from the middle of the scapula in some animals; the spine of the scapula.
In man it consists of two bones, the scapula and clavicle, on each side.
Pertaining to a bone of the shoulder girdle in most birds, reptiles, and amphibians, which is reduced to a process of the scapula in most mammals.
The part of the scapula behind or below the spine, or mesoscapula.
The part of the scapula in front of, or above, the spine, or mesoscapula.
Noteworthy among bone objects is the scapula of a deer perforated with a round hole, and having its central ridge rubbed off, so as to make it into a polishing implement.
They all consist of the articulate extremities of the long bones of some large bovine animals, with the exception of two, one of which was the thick end of a scapula and the other a cervical vertebra.
If the scapula is compared with that on the sound side, it is seen that, in addition to the lower angle being more prominent, the spine is more horizontal and the lower angle nearer the middle line.
When a bone, such as the scapula or mandible, is involved, it is better to excise the bone, or at least the part of it which bears the tumour.
The displacement of thescapula is not so marked as in the preceding type, and the patient is able to perform pushing movements below the level of the shoulder.
Tertullian quotes to Scapula several instances of kindness on the bench, rough and ready, or high-principled.
The part of the scapulaforming the tip of the shoulder.
We can distinctly feel the spine of the scapula and its highest point, the acromion.
The two bones of the shoulder, the scapulaand the clavicle, serve in man to attach the arm to the trunk.
Man is represented by a diseased scapula and by two bone awls, which are clearly made from the tibia of a species of Canis intermediate in size between C.
It is also noteworthy that the three malar bones preserved are all different in shape, while three corresponding fragments of the acromial process of the scapula differ in size.
In the Cretaceous rocks the scapula presents, in most cases, a different appearance.
The principal bones of the hind limb appear to be a little shorter; but the scapulaand coracoid are slightly larger.
Chameleons have the blade of the scapula long and slender, but the coracoid is always as broad as it is long.
Among Lizards both scapula and coracoid are widely expanded, and the coracoid is always attached to the sternum.
This rather recalls the relative positions ofscapula and coracoid among crocodiles.
The scapula, or shoulder-blade, of Crocodiles is a similar flat bone, very much shorter than the scapula of a Chameleon, and more like that of the New Zealand Hatteria.
But I have hesitated to give different names to these smaller genera because no example of scapula has come under my notice which is not truncated at the free end.
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