* In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Gawain returns from his battle with the Green Knight wearing the green girdle " obliquely, like a baldric, bound at his side ,/ below his left shoulder, laced in a knot, in betokening the blame he had borne for his fault.

Successful vaults depend on the speed of the run, the length of the hurdle, the power the gymnast generates from the legs and shoulder girdle, the kinesthetic awareness in the air, and the speed of rotation in the case of more difficult and complex vaults.

He designed Hermes ' winged helmet and sandals, the Aegis breastplate, Aphrodite's famed girdle, Agamemnon's staff of office, Achilles ' armor, Heracles ' bronze clappers, Helios ' chariot ( and one for himself, to be used on account of his lameness ), the shoulder of Pelops, and Eros ' bow and arrows.

P. occidentalis mount wherein arms, shoulder girdle, and fingers are actual bones, and the rest has been drawn from other specimens.

It is mostly protected and supported by the ribcage, spine, and shoulder girdle.

The choir and outdoor dress of the friars is a tunic of black woolen material, with long, wide sleeves, a black leather girdle and a large shoulder cape to which is attached a long, pointed hood reaching to the girdle.

It makes up part of the shoulder and the pectoral girdle and is palpable in all people, and, in people who have less fat in this region, the location of the bone is clearly visible as it creates a bulge in the skin.

The scapula forms the posterior ( back ) located part of the shoulder girdle.

The axillary nerve is located at the proximal end, against the shoulder girdle.

Successful vaults depend on the speed of the run, the length of the hurdle, the power the gymnast generates from the legs and shoulder girdle, the kinesthetic awareness in the air, and the speed of rotation in the case of more difficult and complex vaults.

* Operculum ( small bone in the skull, linked to shoulder girdle by the opercularis muscle ; perhaps involved in hearing and balance ; absent in caecilians and some salamanders, fused to the stapes ( ear bones ) in most anurans )

Ichthyostegas skull seems more fish-like than that of Acanthostega, but its girdle ( shoulder and hip ) morphology seems stronger and better adapted to land-life.

Most notably, the shoulder girdle was disconnected from the skull, resulting in improved terrestrial locomotion.

Moderate and severe cases can present with pelvic and shoulder girdle muscle weakness.

Rhythmic Stabilisation: and Alternating Isometrics are very similar in that they both encourage stability of the trunk, hip, and shoulder girdle.

The original fossil remains of Supersaurus, discovered in the Dry Mesa Quarry, yielded only a few bones: the shoulder girdle ( type specimen BYU 12962, earlier BYU 5500 ), an ischium ( BYU 12946 ) and a few neck vertebrae.

Other bones that were found at the same location and originally thought to belong to Ultrasauros, like a shoulder girdle ( scapulocoracoid, BYU 9462 ), actually belonged to Brachiosaurus, possibly a large specimen of Brachiosaurus altithorax.

While a grouping by innervation reveals embryological and phylogenetic origins, the functional-topographical classification below reflects the similarity in action between muscles ( with the exception of the shoulder girdle, where muscles with similar action can vary considerably in their location and orientation.

Bones of the shoulder girdle

The shoulder girdle or pectoral girdle, composed of the clavicle and the scapula, connects the upper limb to the axial skeleton through the sternoclavicular joint ( the only joint in the upper limb that directly articulates with the trunk ), a ball and socket joint supported by the subclavius muscle which acts as a dynamic ligament.

Between them these two joints allow a wide range of movements for the shoulder girdle, much because of the lack of a bone-to-bone contact between the scapula and the thoracic cage.

The mobility of the shoulder girdle is supported by a large number of muscles.

The forelimb is long and also built more powerfully than that of other ornithomimids, with large crests on the scapulocoracoid of the shoulder and humerus ( upper arm bone ), which provided attachment points for large arm muscles like the biceps.

Each scapulocoracoid of the shoulder girdle has a length of 153 centimetres.

He is also the tallest dog on record ( according Guinness World Records ), beating the previous holder who was a blue Great Dane named George, who stood at the shoulder.

" Nimravides " catacopis stood about 1 m at the shoulder.

The male weighed and stood a foot and a half ( 45 cm ) taller than a full grown male lion at the shoulder.

In a very dramatic battle, one that Seijurō intervenes in once to give Musashi the scar on his forehead, Musashi also manages to dislocate Denshichirō's shoulder, but the fight does not end until Hon ' iden Matahachi accidentally sets the school building on fire, after drinking much of the sake stored in the basement, bemoaning the " inevitable " death of his newfound hero who stood up to the Yoshioka.

One North American genus, Titanotylopus, stood 3. 5 metres at the shoulder, compared with the approximately two metres of the largest modern camelids.

Dressed in riot gear, police more accustomed to breaking up fights at Milwaukee sporting events stood shoulder to shoulder, often three deep, with sticks and shields ready to stop the crowd if they pressed past snow fences hastily erected for crowd control.

During the surgery itself, at Blalock's request, Thomas stood on a step stool at Blalock's shoulder and coached him step by step through the procedure, Thomas having performed the operation hundreds of times on a dog, Blalock only once, as Thomas ' assistant.

The race's end is memorialized in a statue of the two ( with Landy glancing over his shoulder, thus losing the race ), that stood outside the stadium until its demolition.

According to the 1989 edition of the Guinness Book of Records, in March 1989, when he was 7 years old, Zorba stood at the shoulder and was from the tip of his nose to the tip of his tail, about the size of a small donkey.

) The head-body length of the American lion is estimated to have been and it would have stood at the shoulder.

Moropus stood about tall at the shoulder.

He got it onto his shoulder after some work and carried it outside and down to the Jeep.

While this does bear some similarity with the classic posture of cowboys firing their twin revolvers from the hip, in games this posture is almost never reflected, with almost all game characters firing twin guns at shoulder level, straight-armed.

A recumbent bicycle has a reclined chair-like seat that some riders find more comfortable than a saddle, especially riders who suffer from certain types of seat, back, neck, shoulder, or wrist pain.

A baldric ( also baldrick, bawdrick, bauldrick as well as some other, mostly rare or obsolete, variations ) is a belt worn over one shoulder that is typically used to carry a weapon ( usually a sword ) or other implement such as a bugle or drum.

Breathing can be affected in some ; so can hearing, vision, as well as the neck and shoulder muscles.

Handguns differ from rifles and shotguns in that they are smaller, lack a shoulder stock ( though some pistols like the Luger and Browning Hi-Power accept a removable stock allowing its use as a carbine ), are usually chambered for less-powerful cartridges, and are designed to be fired with one or two hands.

To improve accuracy, some machine pistols are fitted with a shoulder stock.

Another solution is to steady the weapon in some fashion, either by outfitting it with a shoulder stock, using a shoulder strap to pull down on the front of the barrel, or resting the weapon against a hard surface which can be used as a bracing point.

In some later pterosaurs, the backbone over the shoulders fused into a structure known as a notarium, which served to stiffen the torso during flight, and provide a stable support for the scapula ( shoulder blade ).

There is some limited data from woodcuts and textual fragments that Mongol light horse archers and some Chinese soldiers wore a slung baldric over the shoulder, allowing longer blades to be strapped across the back.

There was some concern as to whether he would regain top form as he struggled with mobility through the injured shoulder.

In the mid-1970s, 3-point belt systems such as Chrysler's " Uni-Belt " began to supplant the separate lap and shoulder belts in American-made cars, though such 3-point belts had already been supplied in European vehicles such as Volvos, Mercedes, and Saabs for some years.

* Automatic shoulder and lap belts — This system was mainly used in General Motors vehicles, though it was also used on some Honda Civic hatchbacks and Nissan Sentra coupés.

Combined with movements in both the elbow and shoulder joints, intermediate or combined movements in the wrist approximate those of a ball-and-socket joint with some necessary restrictions, such as maximum palmar flexion blocking abduction.

Arachis species, including the peanut, are used as food plants by some Lepidoptera species, including flame shoulder, nutmeg and turnip moths.

In some individuals, the intensity can be changed by shoulder, head, tongue, jaw, or eye movements.

The knight-to-be would receive the accolade of three light blows on the shoulder with a sword and, in some cases, a ritual slap in the face, said to be the last affronts he could accept without redress.

Key features of a military-specification jacket ( as opposed to a civilian version ) are one-piece back ( some knock-off jackets have a seam across the shoulder blades ; this seam causes discomfort during long flights in a confined position ) and lack of side-entry hand-warmer pockets under the large snap-down patch pockets ( apparently, the military designers did not want their pilots to be seen standing around with their hands in their pockets and believed that a lack of hand-warmer pockets would force pilots to be more productive and appear more professional ) and no interior pocket.

According to some accounts the man had a crooked leg and deformed shoulder.

One measure of the proper length of the sword should be from the hilt in your hand and the tip of the blade at the brow and in some schools, the height of shoulder.

A black line zigzags from the shoulder halfway across the breast ( in some subspecies nearly meeting in the center ), then back to the nape ; a black stripe, extending from the bill, runs below the eye to meet this latter part of the zigzag line.

The scapulars ( shoulder feathers ) are white, and the wings are black with a white bar made up by the bases of the primary remiges, continuing slightly offset onto the bases of the secondary remiges in some regions.

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