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Scapular vs Clavicle - What's the difference?

scapular | clavicle |

As nouns the difference between scapular and clavicle

is that scapular is (christianity) a short cloak worn around the shoulders, adopted as part of the uniform of various religious orders, later often with an embroidered image of a saint while clavicle is the collarbone; the prominent bone at the top of the chest between the shoulder and the neck.

As an adjective scapular

is of or pertaining to the scapula.

scapular

Noun

(en noun)
  • (Christianity) A short cloak worn around the shoulders, adopted as part of the uniform of various religious orders, later often with an embroidered image of a saint.
  • *1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 30:
  • *:A scapular , or friar's coat, for example, was a coveted object to be worn as a preservative against pestilence or the ague […].
  • * 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 409:
  • She granted the Whitefriars identical powers to the Blackfriars, to bless a part of their friar's habit which draped over their shoulders and was known as the scapular ; now laity could wear it and derive spiritual privileges from it.
  • (ornithology) One of a special group of feathers which arise from each of the scapular regions and lie along the sides of the back.
  • A bandage passing over the shoulder to support it, or to retain another bandage in place.
  • (Christianity) A cloth talisman, usually with an embroidered image of a saint, worn around the neck.
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or pertaining to the scapula.
  • Anagrams

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    clavicle

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The collarbone; the prominent bone at the top of the chest between the shoulder and the neck.
  • Synonyms

    * (bone) collarbone, collar bone, collar-bone

    See also

    * (wikipedia "clavicle")