scapular
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
scapular/ˈskapjʊlə/
▶adjective Anatomy & Zoology relating to the shoulder or shoulder blade.
■ Ornithology denoting a feather covering the shoulder, growing above the region where the wing joins the body.
▶noun- 1 a short monastic cloak covering the shoulders.
■ a symbol of affiliation to an ecclesiastical order, consisting of two strips of cloth hanging down the breast and back and joined across the shoulders.
- 2 Medicine a bandage passing over and around the shoulders.
– origin C15: from late L. scapulare, from scapula ‘shoulder’.
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