Word: clavicula
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...describes the world in terms of his own body: mouth of a river, brow of a hill, bosom of the sea. But in naming the interior of his body, man reverses the process and borrows from the outside world, e.g., eardrums, windpipes, bowels (Lat., botellus, small sausage), clavicle (Lat., clavicula, a small key), tonsils (Lat., tonsillae, shaped like stakes...
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