| NOUN | body | shoulder bone, scapula, shoulder blade | either of two flat triangular bones one on each side of the shoulder in human beings |
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| Meaning | Either of two flat triangular bones one on each side of the shoulder in human beings. | |
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| Synonyms | scapula, shoulder blade | |
| Part of | endoskeleton | The internal skeleton |
| shoulder, shoulder joint, articulatio humeri | A ball-and-socket joint between the head of the humerus and a cavity of the scapula | |
| Parts | acromion, acromial process | The outermost point of the spine of the shoulder blade |
| glenoid fossa, glenoid cavity | The concavity in the head of the scapula that receives the head of the humerus to form the shoulder joint | |
| Broader | bone, os | rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates |
| Spanish | escápula, omóplato, paletilla | |
| Catalan | escàpula, omòplat | |
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