| 词汇 | clavicle |
| 词源 | clavicle. Clavicle, or collarbone, derives from the Latin cla- vicula, meaning “little key.” According to Littré’s Dictionnaire de la langue française (1863–77) “because it was compared to the key of a vault, or, as others think, because its form is that of the ancient bolts.” |
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