collarbone
nounEtymology From Middle English colar bane; equivalent to collar + bone.
1
The bone joining the shoulder and the breastbone.
- The pragmatic journalist’s daughter would, and did, explain these “memories” as the work of an imagination hypersensitized by her father’s recent death, but a detail in one letter will not be dismissed. Robert Frobisher mentions a comet-shaped birthmark between his shoulder blade and collarbone.2004, David Mitchell, “Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery”, in Cloud Atlas, →ISBN, page 120:
- Synonyms
- clavicle
- Derived terms
- collarboned