Scapula Synonyms

Scapula Sentence Examples

• Coracoid and scapula fused.

• The scapula is sabre-shaped, and extends backwards over the ribs, lying almost parallel to the vertebral column.

• Its strong belly originates near the shoulder joint from clavicle, coracoid and scapula.

• The sternum has no keel, and ossifies from lateral and paired centres only; the axes of the scapula and cora.coid have the same general direction; certain of the cranial bones have characters very unlike those possessed by the next order - the vomer, for example, being broad posteriorly and generally intervening between the basisphenoidal rostrum and the palatals and pterygoids; the barbs of the feathers are disconnected; there is no syrinx or inferior larynx; and the diaphragm is better developed than in other birds.'

• They first came into contact with the Romans during the reign of Claudius, when they were defeated by Publius Ostorius Scapula.