Usage of "shoulderblade"

A large flat bone located at the back of each shoulder.

Synonyms

Examples for "scapula"

These are in the outside of the humerus and in the scapula. 
 Applied Psychology for Nurses 

Snapping of the scapula resolved with early, full shoulder range of motion. 
 Pubmed 

Her X rays showed healed fractures of the right humerus and scapula. 
 Fatal Voyage 

Removed from beneath skin of back after it had perforated the scapula. 
 Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 / Being Mainly a... 

Below each scapula there were tumors of the nature of fibroma molluscum. 
 Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 

There's no special design on my right shoulder blade, just a jumble. 
 The Illustrated Man 

She liked her tattoos, especially the dragon on her left shoulder blade. 
 The girl who played with fire 

In both cases, pull your shoulder blade back against the band's resistance. 
 Climbing Magazine 

So they took the shoulder blade of an elk and made mounds. 
 Myths and Legends of the Great Plains 

Without hesitating the clerk pushed the needle deep into the shoulder blade. 
 The hangman's daughter 

Any child knows that hardly any blood flows across the shoulder bone! 
 The hangman's daughter 

Then one of the Mamutoi visitors produced the shoulder bone of a mammoth. 
 The Valley of Horses 

Shamile's screams were ignored as her shoulder bone panfully slipped from its socket. 
 Ebony 

Another man had the shoulder bone of a bear. 
 The Cave Boy of the Age of Stone 

Strips of muscle clinging to the shoulder bone. 
 Brains: a zombie memoir 

Usage of shoulderblade in English

A muscle cramped in my shoulderblade and I reached around with my left hand to massage it, startled. 
 Coyote dreams 

The heavy slug struck him in the shoulder and flattened and tore out a piece of his shoulderblade. 
 East of eden 

She felt her closed right fist strike her own left shoulderblade and she screamed again as that thing in her shoulder gave some more. 
 IT 

The breasts are are always lower than the shoulderblades of the back. 
 The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Volume 1 

Thompson was reeling, his head drawn back and down almost to his shoulderblades. 
 More Than Human 

Its innards-wet ,feverish ,andslippery-slidbetween his shoulderblades like warm egg-yoke. 
 The waste lands 

All of her chest and shoulders and shoulderblades were bare. 
 We Can't Have Everything: A Novel 

Well, a chip is something put in the shoulderblades that has a number in it. 
 The South African 

The top of the window rucked his shirt all the way up to his shoulderblades. 
 IT 

But the hookers-theysee the necks and shoulderblades of this world, as well as faces. 
 Cheerful—By Request 

Bright red-auburn hair, its highlights seeming coppery or sometimes almost blonde, hung down to her shoulderblades. 
 IT 

Sharp shoulderblades writhe inside wet fabric as she bares her face, unseen as yet by Rackham. 
 The Guardian 

He could feel prickly sweat breaking out on the back of his neck and between his shoulderblades. 
 The waste lands 

The puff on the end of his nightcap bobbed between his shoulderblades; his knees cracked at every step. 
 Wizard and glass 

It was sheer madness, and he expected to feel the crushing agony between his shoulderblades at any second. 
 Colors Aloft! 

They razored through the back of his shirt, cutting it open, drawing shallow scarlet lines along his shoulderblades. 
 IT 

Frequent collocations

Shoulderblade through the time

Meanings of shoulderblade in English