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the bone that floats free, anchored only by muscle and sheer audacity.
means The scapula is the flat, triangular bone of the upper back—your shoulder blade—that connects the arm to the collarbone and rib cage.
from Straight from the Latin scapula, meaning shoulder blade. The plural scapulae was the original everyday form, and the word has long carried a hint of digging tools and broad flat things—possibly related to the Greek skaptein, 'to dig,' as the bone resembles a small spade. Anatomists simply kept the Latin and never bothered to translate it.
- no joint
- Connects to the skeleton at just one tiny point
- name origin
- Latin for shovel, which it resembles
- winged scapula
- Nerve damage makes it stick out like wings
- muscle hub
- Seventeen muscles attach to this single bone
- old divination
- Ancients read cracked scapulae to predict the future
scapula of lucy — 3.2 million year old hominin fossil found in ethiopia's afar region in 1974
scapula from kennewick man — 9,000 year old skeleton discovered in washington state showing ancient north american settlement