英语词汇“clavicle”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

The clavicle, more commonly known as the collarbone, connects your shoulder blade to you sternum.

The clavicle is the only long horizontal bone in the body (all the other long bones are vertical, such as those in the arms and legs). It evolved to provide a structural support for the arms, and also to serve as protection around blood vessels and nerves in that part of the body. The clavicles of birds are Y-shaped and, on a holiday turkey, are also called the "wishbone."

WORD FAMILY

clavicle: clavicles

USAGE EXAMPLES

I recently read an article in a fashion magazine advising women to wear low-cut dresses so as to show off … their clavicles.

The Guardian(Nov 21, 2016)

It is also Elizabeth Debicki in this year’s The Night Manager, all swan-like neck and clavicle and sweeping cream satin.

The Guardian(Nov 01, 2016)

Romo has played in only four of them, suffering a broken left clavicle twice last season.

Washington Post(Oct 27, 2016)

n bone linking the scapula and sternum

Syn|Hyper

collarbone

bone, os

rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates

单词	clavicle
释义	clavicle (once / 21220 pages) n The clavicle, more commonly known as the collarbone, connects your shoulder blade to you sternum. The clavicle is the only long horizontal bone in the body (all the other long bones are vertical, such as those in the arms and legs). It evolved to provide a structural support for the arms, and also to serve as protection around blood vessels and nerves in that part of the body. The clavicles of birds are Y-shaped and, on a holiday turkey, are also called the "wishbone." WORD FAMILY clavicle: clavicles USAGE EXAMPLES I recently read an article in a fashion magazine advising women to wear low-cut dresses so as to show off … their clavicles. The Guardian(Nov 21, 2016) It is also Elizabeth Debicki in this year’s The Night Manager, all swan-like neck and clavicle and sweeping cream satin. The Guardian(Nov 01, 2016) Romo has played in only four of them, suffering a broken left clavicle twice last season. Washington Post(Oct 27, 2016) n bone linking the scapula and sternum Syn\|Hyper collarbone bone, os rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates
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