Definitions for clavicle

clavicle clav·i·cle

Spelling: [klav-i-kuh l]
IPA: /ˈklæv ɪ kəl/

Clavicle is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 158 anagrams from letters in clavicle (acceillv).

Definitions for clavicle

noun

  1. a bone of the pectoral arch.
  2. (in humans) either of two slender bones, each articulating with the sternum and a scapula and forming the anterior part of a shoulder; collarbone.

Origin of clavicle

1605-15; Medieval Latin clāvicula collarbone, Latin: tendril, door-bolt, little key, equivalent to clāvi(s) key + -cula -cule1

Examples for clavicle

These simple fractures of the clavicle are of no great consequence.

This is met with chiefly in the humerus and in the clavicle.

Victor was found by doctors who examined him last week to have suffered past injuries including a broken arm and clavicle.

The clavicle is well developed, and the radius and ulna are never united.

There are fourteen dorsal vertebrae; the clavicle is absent.

The clavicle is rudimentary, whereas it is well developed in the Paca.

Vestiges of the precoracoid occur at each end of the clavicle.

The clavicle is well developed, as in the other genera of this family.

And the clavicle alone, Berger says, would have electrified the world of paleoanthropology.

The sterno-mastoid was prominent, also the sternal third of the clavicle.

Word Value for clavicle
Scrable

15

Words with friends

20

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