Larger bones such as scapulae had been made into gleaming white shutters that flanked windows of thinly stretched corneas. From Wordnik.com. [A Triumph of Souls]
She had Catholic stuff around the house — crucifixes, medals, cards, scapulae. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Looking for Cute Tarot Deck To Use for Calling Randomly on Students:] Reference
This shot of the lab table shows an assortment of jackrabbit and cottontail mandibles and scapulae. From Wordnik.com. [Great Basin Rabbit Hunting] Reference
She had the round, bright eyes of a bird, and her scapulae were prominent beneath her blouse like featherless, folded wings. From Wordnik.com. [LIGHT FINGERS] Reference
At the end all that remained was the skull and two bones lying underneath it, the left humerus (long bone of the upper arm) and one of the scapulae (shoulder blades). From Wordnik.com. [The Goddess and the Bull] Reference
The pelvic bones as a whole constitute the analogue of the scapulae with respect to their function as a part of the mechanism of locomotive and supportive apparatus of the horse. From Wordnik.com. [Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1] Reference
I doubt I'd be able to choose what either of them looked like, but since we're here, I'd like my wings to be feathery and dark grey, and I'd also like them to grow from my scapulae. From Wordnik.com. [j-gan Diary Entry] Reference
That shoulder-blade is an extremely doubtful document, and I would like to put it side by side with the gnawed scapulae of a few of the commoner domestic animals before I admitted its humanity. From Wordnik.com. [The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth] Reference
The meat-bearing parts of the fore - and hind legs (represented by scapulae, humeri, radii, ulnae, pelves, femora and tibiae) and the axial skeleton (vertebrae and ribs) were less frequently present. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Subsistence Studies Report 2] Reference
Lateral lobes: the deflexed portions of pronotum that cover the sides of pro-thorax in many Orthoptera: in certain Hymenoptera, lie on each side of the parapsidal furrows of mesoscutum and = scapulae. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
Keep the scapulae stabilized and feet connected to the floor. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Pranab rules out rollback of fuel price] Reference
Ventral scapulae and coracoids of Seitaad ruessi (UMNH VP 18040). From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
Senn shows a tumor of this variety which was situated between the scapulae. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
There were keloids over her scapulae, which followed the application of blisters. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
The other half of the "core" IMO is the muscles that stabilize and control the scapulae. From Wordnik.com. Reference
In mice, two large, ovulated masses of brown fat on the dorsal aspect of the thorax, between the scapulae. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Forelegs are parallel, straight, strongly boned and muscular and set close to the body well under the scapulae. From Wordnik.com. Reference
You specify the axillae and the front region of the chest and lower part of scapulae: now, these are all hairy spots in man. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference
Ergo mirabar quod dudum scapulae gestibant mihi, hariolari quae occeperunt, sibi esse in mundo malum. quidquid est, eloquere. From Wordnik.com. [Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives] Reference
This may sound overly simplistic but simply being aware of how you're using your scapulae during climbing is what it comes down to. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Aesthetically I kind of like the way the muscles sometimes show through there and I like scapulae and napes and really, quite a lot of women parts. From Wordnik.com. [Answerbag: Latest Questions in Question Categories] Reference
You should feel you scapulae drop a little and move slightly toward your spine, this is usually accompanied by an feeling of opening through the chest. From Wordnik.com. Reference
In fact, you're so prone to patting yourself on the back that I suspect you experience chronic difficulties with torn rotator cuffs and dislodged scapulae. From Wordnik.com. [TPMCafe] Reference
At the breast are the sternum or breastbone, clavicles or collar-bones, and the scapulae or shoulder-blades, on which the pectoral or breast fins are placed. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Household Management] Reference
He could displace his muscles so that the lower angles of the scapulae projected and presented the appearance historically attributed to luxation of the scapula. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
These furnish the accompaniment to the dance song, sung by the male kachinas, by rasping the dried scapulae of sheep over notched sticks placed on wooden sounding boxes. From Wordnik.com. [Taytay's Tales] Reference
The dorsally recumbent patient is so placed that the head and shoulders extend beyond the table, the edge of which supports the thorax at about the level of the scapulae. From Wordnik.com. [Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery] Reference
You have to odd at least slow your stomach exercises for bad backs weight and you want to yoru two and deficiency adjustments the scapulae weight (if you are curl to the calves that's confident too). From Wordnik.com. [Wii-volution]
Pitcher who scap load take their elbows behind their back and pinch their scapulae (shoulder blades) usually just before their pitching-arm forearm is at the vertical and their shoulders begin to rotate towards the target. From Wordnik.com. [Texas Rangers] Reference
And here were bones: femurs, ulnae, sacra, ribs, scapulae; he was standing in "a veritable graveyard. From Wordnik.com. [The Kaisho]
Notched sticks and deer’s scapulae, used as rattles. From Wordnik.com. [Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the Pueblos of Zuñi, New Mexico, and Wolpi, Arizona, in 1881 Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 511-594] Reference
Both scapulae are well preserved and in articulation with the skeleton (. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
M. Levator anguli scapulae muscle. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
Bone disease (suppurative periostitis, osteomyelitis, caries, or necrosis) of chest, including ribs, sternum, clavicles, scapulae, or vertebrae. From Wordnik.com. [EXECUTIVE ORDER 10001] Reference
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