clavicle

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The collarbone; the prominent bone at the top of the chest between the shoulder and the neck connecting the shoulder and the breastbone.
    — Mr. Trump then used his free hand to lunge towards Bobby Engel, and, when Mr. Ornato had recounted the story to me, he had motioned towards his clavicles.
  2. A bone in fish.
  3. The upper part of a spiral shell. obsolete
    — The Voluta is a ſimple ſhell, having no hinge, formed of one piece, and of a figure approaching to conic, but short; the clavicle being uſually depreſſed, in all very ſhort: the mouth is long, perpendicular, and narrow: the animal inhabiting this ſhell is a limax.

词形变化

clavicles plural clavicula alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
clavicled clavicular claviculate interclavicle postclavicle supraclavicle

词源

Borrowed from Middle French clavicule, from Latin clāvicula (“a small key”), diminutive of clāvis (“a key”).
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