clavicle

clavicle

English

Clavicles, shown in red.

Alternative forms

• clavicula

Etymology

Borrowing from Middle French clavicule, from Latin clāvicula (“a small key”), diminutive of clāvis (“a key”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈklæv.ɪk.əl/, /ˈklæv.ɪk.l̩/
• Rhymes: -ævɪkəl

Noun

clavicle (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.

   Synonym: collarbone

   • 2022 June 28, Hutchinson, Cassidy, Secret Service officials: Agents willing to dispute Trump SUV incident under oath‎, CNN, 0:47 from the start:

     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, Ling Ma, “Yeti Lovemaking”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:

     And you worked a lot too. You were thin from biking around all day; your protruding clavicles collected rainwater.

Derived terms

• clavicular
• claviculate
• interclavicle
• postclavicle
• supraclavicle

 

Translations

collar bone

Afrikaans: sleutelbeen (af) Arabic: تَرْقُوَة‎ f (tarquwa) Egyptian Arabic: ترقوة‎ f (turquwa) Armenian: անրակ (hy) (anrak) Old Armenian: անրակ (anrak), անդրակ (andrak) Assamese: কাচিহাড় (kasihar) Asturian: clavícula (ast) Aymara: qhiwi ch'aka Azerbaijani: körpücük sümüyü Bashkir: умрау (umraw), умрау һөйәге (umraw höyäge) Basque: lepauztai Bikol Central: baliwang Breton: ibil-skoaz (br) Bulgarian: ключица f (ključica) Burmese: ညှပ်ရို (hnyap-rui) Catalan: clavícula (ca) f Cebuano: balikhaw Central Melanau: tuleang bagei Chechen: динбухка (dinbuxka) Chinese: Mandarin: 鎖骨／锁骨 (zh) (suǒgǔ) Crimean Tatar: köprüçik kemigi Czech: klíční kost (cs) f Danish: kraveben (da) n, nøgleben n Dhivehi: ކޮނޑުކަށި‎ (koⁿḍukaṣi) Dutch: sleutelbeen (nl) n Erzya: мештеловажа (meštelovaža) Esperanto: klaviklo Estonian: rangluu Evenki: ороко̄н (orokōn), комурган (komurgan), гэмургэн (gəmurgən) Faroese: óstbein n Finnish: solisluu (fi) French: clavicule (fr) f Galician: clavícula (gl) f Georgian: ლავიწი (lavic̣i) German: Schlüsselbein (de) n; (medicine also) Klavikula f, Klavikel n (dated) Greek: κλείδα (el) f (kleída) Gujarati: હાંસડી (hā̃sḍī) Hebrew: עצם הבריח‎ f (etsem ha-brikhe) Hindi: हंसली (hanslī) Hungarian: kulcscsont (hu) Iban: tulang banga Icelandic: viðbein (is) n Ido: klavikulo (io) Indonesian: tulang selangka (id), tulang cenak (id), klavikula (id) Irish: dealrachán m, branra brád m, cnámh smiolgadáin f Italian: clavicola (it) f Japanese: 鎖骨 (ja) (さこつ, sakotsu) Javanese: ꦧꦭꦸꦁ​ꦱꦼꦭꦁꦏ (balung​selangka) Kalmyk: күңкрг (küngkrg), товчлур (tovchlur) Kazakh: бұғана (būğana) Korean: 쇄골 (ko) (swaegol), 빗장뼈 (ko) (bitjangppyeo) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: pirika mil Latin: iugulum n, (New Latin) clāvicula f Macedonian: клучна коска f (klučna koska) Malagasy: taolampanavy (mg) Malay: tulang selangka (ms), klavikel, tulang cenak Manchu: ᠠᠯᠠᠵᠠᠨ (alajan) Maori: ā, āhei Mongolian: эгэм (mn) (egem) Navajo: atʼog Old English: wiþobān n Ossetian: бӕхбӕттӕн (bæxbættæn) Polish: obojczyk (pl) m Portuguese: clavícula (pt) f Romanian: claviculă (ro) f Russian: ключи́ца (ru) f (ključíca) Scots: hausebane Scottish Gaelic: cnàimh an uga m Serbo-Croatian: ključnjača (sh) f Slovene: ključnica (sl) f Spanish: clavícula (es) f Swahili: mtulinga Swedish: nyckelben (sv) n Tagalog: balagat Tamil: காறை எலும்பு (kāṟai elumpu) Telugu: జత్రుక (te) (jatruka), జత్రువు (te) (jatruvu) Thai: กระดูกไหปลาร้า (grà-dùuk-hǎi-bplaa-ráa) Turkish: köprücük kemiği (tr) Ukrainian: ключи́ця (uk) f (ključýcja) Vietnamese: xương đòn, xương quai xanh Volapük: klavikul Waray-Waray: balawak Welsh: pont ysgwydd f

References

• “clavicle”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “clavicle”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary