what is medical term for shoulder blade
Shoulder blade: The familiar flat triangular bone at the back of the shoulder. Known familiarly as the wingbone or, medically, as the scapula. The word scapula (with the accent on the first syllable) is Latin. The Romans always employed the plural scapulae, the shoulder blades. Because the shoulder blade resembles the blade of a trowel (a small shovel), the word scapula is thought to have come from the Greek skaptein meaning to dig..