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‖ suprascapula Anat. and Zool.|s(j)uːprəˈskæpjʊlə|
Pl. -æ.
[mod.L.: see supra- 3 a and scapula.]
A bone (or cartilage) in the upper or anterior part of the scapular arch or shoulder-girdle, in fishes, and in some batrachians and reptiles.
1854Owen in Orr's Circ. Sci., Org. Nat. I. 175 The special names of the above elements of the hæmal arch of the occipital vertebra are, from above downwards, ‘supra⁓scapula’,..‘scapula’,..‘coracoid’. 1888Rolleston & Jackson Anim. Life 81 [The dorsal scapular] consists of a broad semicartilaginous supra-scapula and an ossified scapula. |