What's the difference between collarbone and shoulder?

Collarbone


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "It's miraculous we survived," said passenger Vedpal Singh, who had a fractured collarbone and whose arm was in a sling.
  • (2) Although Ryan Mathews broke two collarbones this season, some still felt that he was mismanaged when healthy and Turner also made a comment about his vision which was unflattering in the way most coaches don't.
  • (3) And he won't be taking to the slopes this week, as he's got a broken collarbone.
  • (4) We measured the arterial pulse wave velocity at the arm, between sub-collarbone artery and radial artery.
  • (5) Yet when I look in the mirror at my towpath-pounding legs, my prominent collarbones, swelling biceps and flat, gravel-hardened feet, I am looking at my father's body.
  • (6) The story that united these sisters begins one day in spring 2009, when Tamsin, then 40, noticed a strange thickening under the skin of her chest, just below her collarbone.
  • (7) Rodgers was playing in his first game after missing seven games with a broken collarbone (sustained against the Bears) and Cobb was returning after being out 10 games with a broken leg, but the pair connected on a fourth-and-eight from the 48-yard line in the showdown game.
  • (8) When the Packers’ starting quarterback, Aaron Rodgers, went down with a fractured collarbone, the balance of power in the NFC North was immediately transformed.
  • (9) One Ukrainian serviceman has been wounded in the neck and collarbone.
  • (10) The fracture of the right collarbone has been confirmed clinically,” Gerardo Aguilar said .
  • (11) The calamitous clash of bikes involving Mark Cavendish , during the first stage's final sprint through Harrogate, stunned the sun-bathed crowd and left the rider clutching his collarbone.
  • (12) Aaron Rodgers will start at quarterback for Green Bay for the first time since fracturing his collarbone against Chicago in week nine.
  • (13) Javier Hernández underwent a successful operation this morning … he had two plates inserted in his right collarbone fixed with six screws,” the Mexico team doctor Gerardo Aguiar said.
  • (14) Despite her jacket’s bright hues, the outfit was respectful and modest, with nary a collarbone in sight – seemingly appropriate attire in which to pay respects to the deceased monarch of Saudi Arabia, King Abdullah.
  • (15) The Mexico striker Javier Hernández had surgery on a fractured collarbone on Thursday and will be out for four weeks missing the Gold Cup, the Mexican Football Federation has said.
  • (16) Her older brother had jumped on her as a child, broken her ribcage and her collarbone, and her mother hadn’t even taken her to hospital, so it had healed like that.” He met another person, a former healthcare worker who uses a wheelchair, “now in very poor health and clearly incapable of work; the welfare reforms had clearly been affecting her”.
  • (17) Eight weeks after going down with a fractured collarbone, Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers was back to wreak vengeance on Chicago, the team who had caused his injury in the first place.
  • (18) The Manchester United striker Javier Hernández has suffered a broken collarbone while on international duty with Mexico.
  • (19) We call that the thumper,” Martin winks before guiding a resident who is threading a needle into the flesh near the patient’s collarbone.

Shoulder


Definition:

  • (n.) The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the projection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint.
  • (n.) The flesh and muscles connected with the shoulder joint; the upper part of the back; that part of the human frame on which it is most easy to carry a heavy burden; -- often used in the plural.
  • (n.) Fig.: That which supports or sustains; support.
  • (n.) That which resembles a human shoulder, as any protuberance or projection from the body of a thing.
  • (n.) The upper joint of the fore leg and adjacent parts of an animal, dressed for market; as, a shoulder of mutton.
  • (n.) The angle of a bastion included between the face and flank. See Illust. of Bastion.
  • (n.) An abrupt projection which forms an abutment on an object, or limits motion, etc., as the projection around a tenon at the end of a piece of timber, the part of the top of a type which projects beyond the base of the raised character, etc.
  • (v. t.) To push or thrust with the shoulder; to push with violence; to jostle.
  • (v. t.) To take upon the shoulder or shoulders; as, to shoulder a basket; hence, to assume the burden or responsibility of; as, to shoulder blame; to shoulder a debt.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One developed recurrent dislocation of the shoulder.
  • (2) In dorsoventral (DV) reversed wings at both shoulder or flank level, the motor axons do not alter their course as they enter the graft.
  • (3) To determine the accuracy of double-contrast arthrography in complete rotator cuff tears, we studied 805 patients thought to have a complete rotator cuff tear who had undergone double-contrast shoulder arthrography (DCSA) between 1978 and 1983.
  • (4) Video games specialist Game was teetering on the brink of collapse on Friday after a rescue deal put forward by private equity firm OpCapita appeared to have been given the cold shoulder by lenders who are owed more than £100m.
  • (5) The power spectrum of the EMG was analyzed during isometric contractions of the shoulder muscles.
  • (6) He shrugs his shoulders and laughs: "And they call us thieves!"
  • (7) In April 1986, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the thorax and shoulder girdle was presented to the 99th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Anatomists.
  • (8) Paul Doyle Kick-off Sunday midday Venue St Mary’s Stadium Last season Southampton 2 Leicester City 2 Live Sky Sports 1 Referee Michael Oliver This season G 18, Y 60, R 1, 3.44 cards per game Odds H 5-6 A 4-1 D 5-2 Southampton Subs from Taylor, Martina, Stephens, Davis, Rodriguez, Sims, Ward-Prowse Doubtful Bertrand, Davis, Van Dijk (all match fitness) Injured Boufal (knee, Jan), Hesketh (ankle, Feb), Targett (hamstring, Feb), Austin (shoulder, Mar), Pied (knee, Jun), Gardos (knee, unknown) Suspended None Form DWLLLL Discipline Y37 R2 Leading scorer Austin 6 Leicester City Subs from Zieler, Hamer, Wasilewski, Gray, Fuchs, James, Okazaki, Hernández, Kapustka, King Doubtful None Injured None Suspended None Unavailable Amartey, Mahrez, Slimani (Africa Cup of Nations) Form LDLWDL Discipline Y44 R1 Leading scorers Slimani, Vardy 5
  • (9) Measurements were made of the width of the marginal gap for three sites at each of four stages: (1) after the shoulder firing, (2) after the body-incisal firing, (3) after the glaze firing, and (4) after a correction firing.
  • (10) A prospective randomized study was carried out to discover the influence of the timing of shoulder physiotherapy after-axillary dissection for breast cancer upon the incidence and duration of lymphatic fluid production and seroma after these operations.
  • (11) Five cases of bilateral abduction contracture of the shoulder in adults including the first case of bilateral abduction contractures of shoulder and hip plus bilateral flexion contracture of elbow and extension contracture of a knee are reported.
  • (12) A case of unilateral anterior dislocation of the shoulder after a shock of 380 volts is presented here.
  • (13) We felt that this relatively high redislocation rate was due to failure to immobilize these shoulders for 3 weeks postoperatively.
  • (14) Forty percent of newly synthesized chains eluted on gel filtration as a lower molecular weight (LMW) shoulder and in vivo turned over faster than the larger species.
  • (15) Muscle sparing thoracotomy can be used safely for most thoracic procedures and we believe it permits easier pain control and early preservation of full shoulder motion.
  • (16) In severely impaired limbs, there was a marked shift in both the peak EMG angle and the angular domain of EMG activity for both biceps and triceps muscle groups, away from the normal elbow flexion-extension axis towards external humeral rotation and shoulder girdle elevation.
  • (17) The cervical discogenic (painful disc) syndrome consists of scapular pain radiating to the head, shoulder and upper arm, often associated with paraesthesiae but without neurological deficit.
  • (18) This approach was used in 42 shoulders with rotator cuff tears or posterior instability without complications of infection, failure of deltoid healing, or compromise of suprascapular or axillary nerves.
  • (19) The results suggest that patients with shoulder capsulitis should be investigated to exclude diabetes mellitus particularly when there is no history of antecedent trauma.
  • (20) Five shoulders had a posterior opening-wedge osteotomy of the scapular neck to correct the excessive retroversion of the glenoid cavity.

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