Word: scapula
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...shortness of breath. Indeed, many cardiologists consider difficulty breathing to be as good an indicator of a possible heart attack as chest pain. Other less specific signs include nausea, profuse sweating and fainting. Some heart-attack victims describe a sudden, overwhelming sense of doom or feel pain under their scapula--the "wing" bones in the back...
...side, and again the nurse resists. He does chin tucks and shoulder shrugs, in which he exercises what little movement he has in his shoulders; he raises them as high as he can, then brings them down again, also 50 times. He does a similar exercise of the scapula muscles, below the shoulder blades...
...crew, under the joint leadership of Leakey, director of the National Museums of Kenya, and Alan Walker, professor of cell biology and anatomy at the Johns Hopkins University medical school, began to turn up other whisky-colored skeletal pieces in the nearby sandy debris: first a rib, then a scapula, then a hip. As the collection grew, it became astonishingly clear that they had underestimated their initial discovery. Kimeu had, in fact, struck paleontological gold...
...pile with a mass of men fall in upon the unprotected shoulder. In but two cases was the dislocation a complete one, and in one of those cases the player received it very early in the game and finished a twenty-minute half with the collar bone and the scapula entirely separated. He was extremely fortunate to obtain no more serious results. One player on the second eleven played throughout the entire season with a complete dislocation received during a former season...
...apparatus now at the gymnasium will afford students an opportunity to make absolute tests of the muscles of the neck, trunk, scapula, humerus, forearms, thighs, legs, etc., and thus ascertain his real strength in any part...