scapulae , także: scapulas

Lesions similar to those caused by osteomyelitis in two scapulae.

In order to gain the benefits of the order, the members must wear these scapulae constantly.

"But my scapulae might not be so sturdy."

Table 9), but the scapulae were characteristically broken along the vertebral border.

The grey mantle is 305 mm, and the scapulae are fringed brown, some tipped white.

He arched his back, hard, flexed his shoulders and scapulae, snapped away from the wall.

Muscles that retract the scapulae include the rhomboid muscle and the trapezius muscle.

The concept of writing on objects originates to the beginning of Chinese civilization, when tortoise shells and scapulae were used to predict the future.

Their scapulae were very well developed, especially in Smilodon, to allow for a larger surface area of attachment for massive shoulder and triceps muscles.

Furthermore, according to Thewissen et al., the pakicetid scapulae have large supraspinous fossae with small acromions, in contrast to other cetaceans.

A wrestler scores points for holding his opponent's shoulders or scapulae to the mat for several seconds while his opponent is still not pinned.

During the transverse lifts, the scapulae will also articulate and adduct/retract as the weights lift, then abduct/protract as the weights are lowered.

Since divination (-mancy) was by heat or fire (pyro-) and most often on plastrons or scapulae, the terms pyromancy, plastromancy and scapulimancy are often used for this process.

With large clavicles and interclavicle and small scapulae, Leptocleidus resembled the Early Jurassic Rhomaleosaurus and members of the Cretaceous family, Polycotylidae.

One of the burials, located near the huts, revealed a human female skeleton aged to 40+ years old, ritualistically placed beneath a pair of mammoth scapulae, one leaning against the other.

By the end of the Èrlĭgāng the plastrons were numerousKeightley 1978, p.8, and at Anyang scapulae and plastrons were used in roughly equal numbersKeightley 1978, p.10 .

During this lightning swift ascent, the killer morphs toward more than a single shape, simultaneously sampling a menagerie of murderous species, bristling with talons and beaks, with horns and spikes and scapulae.

The term scapular (from Latin scapulae, "shoulders") as used today refers to two specific, yet related, Christian sacramentals, namely the monastic and devotional scapulars, although both forms may simply be referred to as "scapular".

The earliest surviving examples of writing in China are inscriptions on so-called "oracle bones", tortoise plastrons and ox scapulae used for divination, dating from around 1200 BC in the late Shang dynasty.

Fall: A fall, also known as a pin, occurs when one wrestler holds any part of both of his opponent's shoulders or both of his opponent's shoulder blades (scapulae) in continuous contact with the mat.

Bones with large ratios of surface area to weight, such as vertebrae, intact skulls, pelves and scapulae, were moved more readily than more compact bones such as mandibular bodies and parts of the major limb bones.

Many archaeological sites along the south coast and offlying islands of the Korean peninsula show that deer and pig scapulae were used in divination during the Korean Protohistoric, c. 300 BC - AD 300/400.

Halazhaisuchus is known from a single holotype specimen called V6027, which was discovered in 1977 and includes a portion of the vertebral column, some ribs, two scapulae and two humeri, the right radius and ulna, and a left coracoid.

Red marrow is found mainly in the flat bones, such as the pelvis, sternum, cranium, ribs, vertebrae and scapulae, and in the cancellous ("spongy") material at the epiphyseal ends of long bones such as the femur and humerus.

After use, shells and bones used ritually were buried in separate pits (some for shells only; others for scapulae only), in groups of up to hundreds or even thousands (one pit unearthed in 1936 contained over 17,000 pieces along with a human skeleton).