Definition of "clavicle"

clavicle

/ˈklæv.ɪk.əl/

noun
plural clavicles
1. (anatomy) The collarbone; the prominent bone at the top of the chest between the shoulder and the neck connecting the shoulder and the breastbone.
  Quotations
  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.
  2022 June 28, Cassidy Hutchinson, 0:47 from the start, in Secret Service officials: Agents willing to dispute Trump SUV incident under oath‎, CNN
  And you worked a lot too. You were thin from biking around all day; your protruding clavicles collected rainwater.
  2022, Ling Ma, “Yeti Lovemaking”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2. (obsolete, conchology) The upper part of a spiral shell.
  Quotations
  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.
  1752, John Hill, “Voluta”, in An History of Animals. […], London: Printed for Thomas Osborne, […], page 137

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