SHOULDER BLADE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shoulder blade mean? 

• SHOULDER BLADE (noun)
  The noun SHOULDER BLADE has 1 sense:

1. either of two flat triangular bones one on each side of the shoulder in human beings

  Familiarity information: SHOULDER BLADE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHOULDER BLADE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Either of two flat triangular bones one on each side of the shoulder in human beings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

scapula; shoulder blade; shoulder bone

Hypernyms ("shoulder blade" is a kind of...):

bone; os (rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates)

Meronyms (parts of "shoulder blade"):

glenoid cavity; glenoid fossa (the concavity in the head of the scapula that receives the head of the humerus to form the shoulder joint)

acromial process; acromion (the outermost point of the spine of the shoulder blade)

Holonyms ("shoulder blade" is a part of...):

articulatio humeri; shoulder; shoulder joint (a ball-and-socket joint between the head of the humerus and a cavity of the scapula)

endoskeleton (the internal skeleton; bony and cartilaginous structure (especially of vertebrates))

 Context examples 

The clavicles connect the breastbone to the shoulder blades.

(Clavicle, NCI Dictionary)