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the only long bone you can snap by falling on an outstretched hand mid-fall.
means The collarbone is the slender, slightly S-shaped bone running from your breastbone to your shoulder, just under the skin at the base of your neck.
from A plain English compound: "collar," the thing worn around the neck (from Latin collum, "neck," via Old French), plus "bone." The bone sits right where a collar would lie, so the name is delightfully literal. Its anatomical name, clavicle, comes from Latin clavicula, "little key," possibly because the bone rotates a bit like a key turning, or because its curved shape echoes an old door bolt.
- most broken
- the most commonly fractured bone in humans
- first to ossify
- begins hardening in the womb before any other bone
- strut job
- holds your shoulder out from the ribcage
- missing in cats
- cats have only a tiny floating remnant
- name origin
- Latin clavicula means little key
clavicle fracture — most common shoulder girdle fracture, accounting for 5% of all fractures in adults
roger federer injury 2016 — federer broke his left collarbone falling during wimbledon warm-up, requiring surgery