Word Meanings - CLAVICULAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the clavicle.

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• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• CLAVICLE
  The collar bone, which is joined at one end to the scapula, or shoulder blade, and at the other to the sternum, or breastbone. In man each clavicle is shaped like the letter (more info) tendril, dim. of clavis key, akin to claudere to shut. See
• POSTCLAVICLE
  A bone in the pectoral girdle of many fishes projecting backward from the clavicle. -- Post`*cla*vic"u*lar, a.
• SUPRACLAVICLE
  A bone which usually connects the clavicle with the post- temporal in the pectorial arch of fishes.
• INTERCLAVICLE
  See EPISTERNUM
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach