单词 | prescapular |
释义 | prescapularadj.n. Zoology and Medicine. A. adj. Situated in front of the scapula. In early use also (now rare or disused): of or relating to the anterior part of the scapula (cf. prescapula n.); situated in front of or above the spine of the scapula (= supraspinous adj. 1). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > bony support for limbs > shoulder-girdle > [adjective] > shoulder bone > spine of supraspinal1733 infraspinal1753 supraspinous1825 infraspinate1855 prescapular1868 infraspinous1879 1868 W. K. Parker Monogr. Struct. & Devel. Shoulder-girdle & Sternum Vertebrata 215 The præ-scapular region of the Cat is seen to be largely produced forwards in the adult. 1889 Amer. Naturalist 23 137 Those [spines] of the interorbital, suborbital and prescapular regions, are white, with a black space at the middle. 1896 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 35 158 The spine of the scapula..is much nearer to the anterior border than the posterior, thus making the prescapular fossa much smaller than the postscapular. 1911 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 84 484 The prescapular glands were found to be the size of a hazel-nut. 1948 Ecol. Monogr. 18 156/2 These parentheses-shaped bones constitute the scapulae and their projections, the prescapular processes. 1993 S. J. Ettinger Pocket Compan. Textbk. Vet. Internal Med. xiv. 124 Three lymph nodes drain the ear: retropharyngeal, submandibular, and prescapular. The supraspinatus muscle. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > muscle > muscles of specific parts > [noun] > muscles of shoulder subscapularis1615 supraspinatus muscle1615 subscapular muscle1634 under-blade-lurker1683 muscle of patience1728 deltoid1740 deltoid muscle1741 infraspinatus1855 prescapular1890 trachelo-acromial1891 infraspinator1897 1890 Cent. Dict. Prescapular, the prescapularis or supraspinatus muscle. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1868 |
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