a. Anat. and Zool. [In sense 1, ad. mod.L. suprāclāviculāris, f. suprā SUPRA- 1 b + clāvicula CLAVICLE1 in sense 2, f. SUPRACLAVICLE: see -AR.]

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  1.  Situated above the clavicle or collar-bone.

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1847–9.  Todd’s Cycl. Anat., IV. 753/2. The supra-clavicular and acromial nerves, form the termination of the cervical plexus.

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1876.  Trans. Clinical Soc., IX. 193. Forced breathing called into play the diaphragm far more than the supraclavicular muscles.

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1886.  Fagge, Princ. Med., I. 755. In one of my cases, these supraclavicular swellings were much larger than hen’s eggs.

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  2.  Pertaining to the supraclavicle.

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  In recent Dicts.

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