It is entirely cartilaginous and consists of a curved ventrally-placed rod, ending dorsally in two horn-like scapular processes which are sometimes attached to the cranium or vertebral column.
The dorsal ends or scapular portions of the girdle form a pair of gradually tapering horns.
What they most prided themselves on was the sacred scapular which the Mother of God herself had bestowed upon Simon Stock, the general of the order in A.
The dress consisted of a white frock with white scapular and a small peaked capouch; but outside of the cloister a black cloak with capouch was worn over it.
It was therefore proposed to forbid the wearing of the scapular by all who were not bound by vows to the Orders and subjected to the Rules.
During these movements of the humerus, there exists an essential factor--that is, the scapular balance.
There exists, therefore, in an independent form, the scapular portion only.
I did not know then--and I did not learn for many months--that it was the scapular of a Roman Catholic.
I remember distinctly dreaming of him once or twice at night--and that he stood over my bedside, in those dreams, with his crutch upraised to strike, and his little leather scapular writhing and hissing like a coiled snake.
The mid-leg in these is connected with the scapular by the intervention of a triangular transverse anterior piece, which in fact seems only marked by a black channel, to which also interiorly a ridge is opposed[1689].
This robust structure seems to indicate that the scapular has to counteract a powerful action both of the leg and elytrum.
Anne of Brittany, twice Queen of France, wore the scapular of the Carmelites, and wished it to be sent with her heart in a golden box to her beloved Bretons.
The scapular region was also a favourite one for the lodgment of retained bullets, some resting in the supra- and infra-spinatus muscles, others lying beneath the bone itself.
Entry, at the anterior border of the sterno-mastoid opposite the pomum Adami; exit, through the ninth rib below and 1/2 an inch external to the scapular angle.
The shoulder could be slightly abducted, but wide movements were made by the scapular muscles.
Wound of entry, over pomum Adami; exit, below scapular spine, about centre.
One of a special group of feathers which arise from each of the scapular regions and lie along the sides of the back.
A projection, formed by a separate ossification, at the scapular end of the clavicle of many birds.
An order of eellike fishes having the scapular arch attached to the vertebr\'91, but not connected with the skull.
The prominent features are pain, rigidity, and wasting of the deltoid and scapular muscles.
The line of fracture runs through the scapular notch, downwards and laterally to the lower margin of the glenoid, so that the glenoid and the coracoid process are separated from the rest of the bone.
In some cases there is a large fluctuating and painless swelling; in others marked and rapid wasting of the deltoid and scapular muscles with flail-like movements of the joint associated with disappearance of the upper end of the humerus (Fig.
The dorsal markings on the body usually consist of a blotch, or two or more spots, on the occiput, in the scapular region, and in the sacral region.
In most specimens the stripes are connected by a transverse mark in the scapular region and in many others also by a transverse mark in the sacral region.
The Carmelite scapular is of brown and bears a picture of the Virgin Mary--hence the woman wearing the crown.
Of course he had an object in entrusting the scapular to the Englishman; this was, doubtless, that it be handed on to some third person, unknown to us.
I reasoned out what must have become of the scapular when this young man came to me after his father's death," said Karkowsky.
The scapular which hung about his neck was a most likely place for this, being but several thicknesses of cloth stitched together.
It was you, then, who took the scapular from me at the embassy?
There is one made of scarlet cloth--the 'Scapular of the Passion.
With the feeling that the scapular should be well hidden, Nanon placed it in one of the candlesticks, cunningly calculating that as the article had once been searched, it would be passed by thereafter.
Then came the cross which I was shown upon my first visit to the Morse house; its down stroke of blue and cross stroke of red is the same as the device upon the white scapular of the Trinitarians.
Splints or similar appliances are not of practical value in scapular fractures.
The treatment of compound fractures of the scapular spine consists in the removal of the broken piece of bone by way of a cutaneous incision so situated that good drainage of the wound will follow.
Fractures of the scapular spine are ordinarily readily recognized because there is usually visible displacement of the broken part.
The same general plan of treatment is indicated that is described on page 74 in the consideration of atrophy of the scapular muscles.
The bullet had entered on the posterior aspect of the right scapular region and had emerged at the level of the first dorsal vertebra.
A soldier was struck September 27, near Berry au Bac, by a shell fragment in the rightscapular region and was thrown, according to his story, 15 meters.
In the Sebastopol goose the scapular feathers are greatly elongated, curled, or even spirally twisted, with the margins plumose.
Later on they became more generous, but they clung with tenacity to the Brown Scapular and the First Sunday of the month.
The Virgin might have interceded on her behalf, for is it not said that whoever wears the scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel cannot lose his soul?
It was her scapular that came up under her hand, and at the sight of it, all her mad revolt was hushed, and a calm settled upon her.
Evelyn noticed that, unlike the other nuns she had seen, Sister Veronica wore neither the silver heart on her breast, suspended by a red cord, nor the long straight scapular which gave such dignity to the religious habit.
The brown scapular of St. Mary of Mount Carmel is made of small pieces of cloth connected by long strings, and is worn over the shoulders in imitation of the brown habit of the Carmelite friars.
The promotion of these special devotions in the Catholic Church has been assigned to different Orders: such as the rosary to the Dominicans; the scapular to the Carmelites; the Way of the Cross to the Franciscans.
Sometimes (but not constantly) a pair of cervical bows connects the scapular bars with the subvertical dorsal rod of the sagittal ring.
Behind the pair of coracal rods there arises from the basilar rod of the sagittal ring a third pair of lateral horizontal branches, the scapular rods.
Our figure represents a variety of the male bird, wherein the light green on the scapular feathers is wanting.
They sometimes crowded about him to kiss his hand or his scapular so that he could not move.
The leader of the revolted enemy, Don Gabriel Dayag, came to him and kissed his scapular with great reverence, and embraced him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scapular" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: crest; feather; garment; hackle; panache; pinion; plume; quill; topknot; tuft
