a. [f. L. clāvicul-a + -AR: cf. F. claviculaire.]
† 1. Of or pertaining to a key. Obs.
1657–96. in Phillips.
1692. in Coles.
2. Of or pertaining to the clavicle or collar-bone.
1824. Sir A. Cooper, Dislocations & Fractures (1831), 286. The clavicle is joined to the first rib by a clavicular costal, or … rhomboid ligament.
1878. T. Bryant, Pract. Surg., I. 479. The clavicular origin of the pectoral muscle.
1882. Syd. Soc. Lex., Clavicular artery, a small branch of the acromio-thoracic artery, which supplies the subclavius muscle.
Hence Clavicularly adv.
1888. Cassell’s Fam. Mag., Dec., 14/1. The important point in breathing is to do so diaphragmatically and not clavicularly—i.e., to employ deep breathing, and to avoid all tendency to raise the shoulders.
