THE SKELETON. 



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corresponding shoulder-bone, blade-bone, spade-bone or scapula (from 

 tfxaTzrw, scapto, I dig). The two flat triangular-shaped scapulce, placed 

 at the back of the trunk, are thus suspended by the collar-bones, so as 



Fig. 2. 



Fig. 2. The back view of the Uuman Skeleton. (Bourgery and Jacob.) 



to be very movable. Broadly and strongly connected with the part 

 of the vertebral column next below the loins, which is called the sacrum, 

 or sacred bone, because this part in animals was offered in heathen 

 sacrifices, are two wide bones, called the hip-bones, also the innominate 

 or un-named bones (from in, not, and nomen, a name, because they 

 had no special name). As shown in Fig. 10, each consists of the ilium, 



