Preferred Label : clavicle bone;
Uberon definition : A paired dermal or endochondral bone that is part of the pectoral girdle. The clavicle
may be in contact with the interclavicle or coracoid and forms an attachment site
for pectoral musculature. [PHENOSCAPE:ad].;
Uberon synonym : collarbone; clavicula; clavicle; collar bone;
Uberon Development note : In most birds and mammals the clavicles are the only dermal elements in the trunk,
and is the only membrane bone associated with the pectoral girdle in these taxa. However,
there can be secondary cartilage, or subsequent endochondral ossification, or fusion
with endochondral elements. In rodents, the lateral ends of the clavicle are endochondral
but the main portion is dermal.;
Uberon Homology note : In early tetrapods, the connecting skull bone, the posttemporal, and adjoining shoulder
bones, supracleithrum and postcleithrum ( anocleithrum), are absent, leaving a dermal
shoulder girdle composed of the remaining ventral elements: the paired cleithrum and
clavicle, and an unpaired midventral interclavicle that joins both halves of the girdle
across the midline. (...) Several dermal elements of the shoulder persist in early
synapsids. The clavicle and interclavicle are present in therapsids and monotremes,
but in marsupials and placentals, the interclavicle is absent, the clavicle often
is reduced in size, and the scapula becomes the predominant shoulder element.[well
established][VHOG];
Uberon Taxon note : The clavicle first appears as part of the skeleton in primitive bony fish, where it
is associated with the pectoral fin; they also have a bone called the cleithrum. In
such fish, the paired clavicles run behind and below the gills on each side, and are
joined by a solid symphysis on the fish's underside. They are, however, absent in
cartilagenous fish and in the vast majority of living bony fish, including all of
the teleosts[ISBN 0-03-910284-X].;
Origin ID : 0001105;
UMLS CUI : C0008913;
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Semantic type(s)
- UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Uberon cross reference
- develops from
- has developmental contribution from
- has part
- in lateral side of
A paired dermal or endochondral bone that is part of the pectoral girdle. The clavicle
may be in contact with the interclavicle or coracoid and forms an attachment site
for pectoral musculature. [PHENOSCAPE:ad].
